Our Alumni
Many of Project HEALTH’s alumni go on to practice medicine in health centers serving low-income patients – some in clinics where they staffed the Family Help Desk as undergraduates and others in clinics where they spearhead efforts to replicate the Family Help Desk model. Having tackled the social determinants of health long before they learned its medical determinants, these new physicians practice a different kind of health delivery.
Project HEALTH alumni not only change health care from within, but also shape it from the outside. As Marc Manseau, a Project HEALTH alumnus who recently completed an MD/MPH at Columbia University, explains: “Project HEALTH gives people who will be leaders in various fields a vivid understanding of the preventative health care system – or the lack thereof. For me, Project HEALTH was the beginning of a lifelong addiction to making an impact in this field.”
The careers Project HEALTH alumni have gone on to include:
- Serving as counsel for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- Coordinating food assistance initiatives at Partners in Health
- Creating community fitness programs for Major League Soccer
- Coordinating HIV-drug access initiatives at Pfizer
- Directing lead poisoning outreach at Boston’s Codman Square Health Center
- Advocating for elderly clients at the Medicare Rights Center
- Developing health programs in the Peace Corps
- Staffing Doctors Without Borders’ antiretroviral projects
Together, our alumni are a powerful network of advocates for a new vision of healthcare for America and the world.
