Our Mission

Urban Health Project educates, inspires, and challenges medical students through their service to marginalized populations in Greater Cincinnati to produce more socially responsible physicians who have a greater understanding of factors that impact health.

Our Vision

Urban Health Project strives to improve healthcare by molding future physicians who will have a personal understanding of the factors that impact health and use this knowledge to provide better care to all populations, especially the underserved.

Summary of Urban Health Project

This year marks the 22nd year of Urban Health Project, one of the few student-run non-profit organizations in the nation.

Medical students who have completed their first year of medical school at the University of Cincinnati apply to spend an 8-week summer internship with the Urban Health Project. These selected physicians-in-training are each matched with an existent non-profit community organization in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky areas. Their responsibilities range from direct patient care to the more social aspects of healthcare. Student interns earn a modest stipend for their work.

This program connects future physicians with underserved people in the community. Urban Health Project gives a new generation of physicians the opportunity to personally observe the many barriers to healthcare and challenges them to incorporate this awareness into their future practice.

Awards and Nominations

2002 Pedro Zamora Youth Services Award, AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati

2003 Just Community Award, University of Cincinnati

2006 Health Care Heroes Community Outreach Nominee, Cincinnati Business Courier

2006 Spirit of Service Award, University of Cincinnati

Our Board Members

Ms. Connie Barker, RN/MSN, Director of Quality of St. Luke's Hospital
Sr. Agnes Coveney, Director of Mission Effectiveness of Good Samaritan Hospital
Dr. Denise Gibson, Assistant Dean of Academic Support of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Ms. Clare Herlihy, Past Co-Director, 3rd Year Medical Student
Ms. Heideh Husseinzadeh, Past Co-Director, 4th Year Medical Student
Ms. Julie Kloenne, Past Co-Director, 3rd Year Medical Student
Ms. Abby Loftus, Past Co-Director, 4th Year Medical Student
Ms. Beth O'Connor, RN, Director of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Project at the Barrett Cancer Center
Mr. Edward Osofsky, President of the Bethesda Foundation, Inc.
Ms. Staci Wagner, Vice President of Operations of Neighborhood Health Care, Inc.
Mr. Pat Ward, President and Manager Not-for-Profit of Fifth Third Foundation
Dr. Laura Wexler, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Admissions of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Mr. Mike Zenz, Senior Director of Development of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

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