Connecticut Area Health Education Center Network

 

The Connecticut AHEC Partnership for High Schools and Colleges Transforming Public Health

The CT AHEC Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) provides enrichment opportunities for high school, EMT, and paramedic students to increase knowledge and interest in public health topics and careers.

 

 

                          

CT AHEC is recruiting high schools for its newest public health awareness and career pipeline program: CT AHEC PHIG (Public Health Infrastructure Grant).

Teachers receive support from PHIG staff in:

• Accessing the program’s public health learning modules for use in grades 9 and 10 classrooms, advisory periods, extended homerooms or after-school activities
• Tailoring the information to the students’ needs and interests
• Securing and supporting guest speakers and field trips to learn about public health / careers
• Participating in the 2027 High School Science and Humanities Symposium at UConn Health
• Providing a FREE Biomedical Engineering (BME) Discovery Program session for each student

Qualifying schools also receive a $5000 stipend. Contact us for more information.

Our stand-alone curriculum helps emergency medical technician (EMT) and paramedic students understand their important roles in public health. By familiarizing themselves with public health principles and practices, learners develop an understanding of public health as a set of tools that helps them recognize opportunities as emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians to improve health beyond treatment and transport.

Through hands-on projects in our immersive Saturday programs, students aged 13 - 17 work in small groups with health profession students from UConn and Quinnipiac University to accomplish inquiry-based biomedical engineering (BME) activities. Whether constructing a hydraulic arm or talking with the health profession students about their various career paths, BME students have fun while learning about the application of engineering in health care.

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This work is supported by funds made available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Center for STLT Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce, through  OE22-2203: Strengthening U.S. Public Health Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems grant. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government. ​