The fifth annual 2024 HIPRC INSIGHT High School Program Symposium was held July 26, 2024. The virtual symposium highlighted students’ research project findings from the summer’s session. This year’s program featured 46 students from across the nation.
The symposium’s keynote speaker was Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH, Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and School of Public Health and Director for the UW Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE). Dr. Hess’s keynote address focused on climate sensitive disasters, how to mitigate these issues, and how climate change may be impacting the student’s generation and work.
TRREK
Over the course of four weeks, the program introduced students to different mentors from a variety of career paths in medicine and public health. The program provided a challenging, immersive hands-on research experience where students learned about research, medicine and public health. Similar to Dr. Hess’s keynote address, students completed a hands-on research project called Transportation Routing and Rescue for Emergency care in an earthquaKe (TRREK). In the event of a traumatic injury from a future high-magnitude earthquake, there will be a need to escape danger and navigate to the closest trauma care center. Student scholars worked on research projects covering emergency disaster preparedness and navigating to care in King County, WA. They presented their findings and routes during the symposium.
Students were randomly assigned into teams to build plans for the shortest walking path to care while injured. Starting location of injury were sampled to represent urban and rural areas of King County, WA. Using Canvas Streetview, students audited Streetview imagery to consider pedestrian safety features and potential barriers that may be encountered. Teams were challenged to create their own research question, collect data, and complete data analysis. Scholars also immersed themselves into research, medicine, and public health topics.
This program was designed to expose students to various fields in medicine while also exposing students to educational and/or career paths. For more on INSIGHT High School, click here.
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