PUBLIC OUTREACH

Each year Pittsburgh Schweitzer Fellows work in small groups to conduct public outreach activities.  These activities aim to:

• Educate students in health-related fields, professionals, and/or the general public about the nature and seriousness of current, local health disparities and unmet health needs;

• Strengthen existing links among the Schweitzer Fellows Program, community agencies and health professional schools, and site and academic mentors;

• Identify new community organizations and other partners that the Schweitzer Fellows Program may collaborate with in the future.

• Help Fellows develop leadership, organizational, and team building skills useful in future public education activities; and

• Provide Fellows with an experience of collaborative and shared responsibility within a small interdisciplinary group.

SYMPOSIA
• Community Based Mental Health Issues
• Hope in the Midst of Hurt: Breaking the Chain of Child Abuse and Neglect
• Why Service?
• Better with Age: An Exploration of Aging Needs
• Health Law Issues – Sample Cases
• The Many Faces of Hunger
• Application of Dr. Schweitzer’s Reverence for Life
• Domestic Abuse
• Strategies for Partnering with Communities to Address Needs
• End of Life Issues: Tips for What Not to Do and What Helps
• The Human Dimension of Careers in community Service
• Homelessness
• Chronic Diseases on the Rise
• TB
• HIV/AIDS
• Economics, Politics and the Needy
• Being a Leader, Taking a Stand
• Stress Management
• East Meets West in Contemporary Medicine
• Caring for Immigrant and Refugee Women
• Disabilities: Rights ,Legislation and Service
• The Health Professional as Advocate
• Service in Disasters
• All Hazards Preparedness
• Prison Health
• From Boys to Men: Emerging Issues in Young Men’s Health
• The Aftermath of Trauma
• Homelessness at Holiday Time: The Schweitzer Ethic and our Responsibility
• Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Future
• Eradicating Substance Abuse in society
• Meeting the Challenges of Life-threatening Illnesses
• Using Creative Arts in a Therapeutic Environment
• Gangs:Perspective and Solutions
• Teen Depression and Suicide Prevention
• The Media’s Impact on Teens