Texas PSR Student Leaders Present: Emerging Research on Health, Climate, and Community
November 20 @ 7:00 pm CST
Join us for a free virtual event, Thursday, November 20, at 7pm CT, featuring Texas PSR student board members and chapter leaders presenting original research into mitigating the impacts of climate change, measuring environmental pollution, and assessing the effectiveness of environmental justice tours and community service as a form of medical student education.
Projects featured:
- Sanjna Bhatia, 4th year medical student, UT Southwestern Medical School will present statistical findings from a needs assessment exploring community understanding of heat-related illness and access to working cooling technologies gathered at the Dallas Health Fair in 2025.
- Simon Birk and Jake Bartz, 3rd year and 2nd year medical students at McGovern Medical School, UT Health Houston, will present research into the existence and prevalence of airborne microplastics at high altitudes from novel data collected on an expedition to central Mexico.
- Alan Nagarajan, 3rd year medical student, Baylor College of Medicine and Audrey Schulze, 3rd year medical student, Sealy School of Medicine, UT Medical Branch will present research into the effectiveness of hands on environmental health education for students and healthcare workers, provided through a Port Arthur environmental justice trip and community health fair in August 2024.
*CME credit is available for those interested.*