Welcome Health Equity Academy Scholars for Cohort 2016

Please join the Academy for Academic and Social Enrichment and Leadership Development for Health Equity (HEA) in welcoming our third cohort of Scholars (from left to right): Marlena Lancaster, Ravenne Aponte, Christina Augustin, Quenisha Greenleaf, Claudia Del Hierro, Rochelle Corbitt, Brianna Gamble and Tori Caldwell.

The Health Equity Academy (HEA) is a nursing workforce diversity grant funded by the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services (D19HP25902). This project is committed to the development of minority nurse leaders with an understanding of and commitment to addressing the relationship between social determinants of health, health access, health disparities and health equity. 

These eight scholars will be on campus participating in the Pre-entry Immersion in Nursing (PIN) program from June 4 – July 15, 2016.  During this six-week experience, scholars will live on campus and work with Duke faculty, advisors, and mentors to develop an enhanced understanding of social determinants of health. Upon successful completion of the PIN program, seven of the HEA scholars will enter the Pathways to Success in Nursing (PSN) program and matriculate into the DUSON ABSN Fall 2016 cohort while one will return to Bennett College for Women to complete her undergraduate program. Pathways to Success in Nursing provides academic and social supports to HEA scholars throughout the ABSN program. We also ask that you please save the date for the HEA Scholar Community Assessment Project presentation which will be held on July 14, 2016 at 12 p.m. in the Clipp 1017.