Sharmily
Roy,
MPH
Student
UTHealth Science Center, Houston, TX
Sharmily Roy holds an MPH and has worked in public health, prior to returning back to school. She is a PhD student in the Management Policy and Community Health (MPACH) Department at UTHealth School of Public Health. Previously, she served as the public relations representative, coordinating activities for the 2021 Healthcare Innovation Challenge, and is now serving on the director team for the collaborative.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
American healthcare is increasingly expensive and inefficient, making it ripe for innovation. Despite the interprofessional nature of healthcare, professional training in each field is mainly independent of other professions. Moreover, our current UTHealth curricula lack the opportunity for students from all six schools (medical, nursing, dentistry, biomedical science, biomedical informatics, and public health) to collaborate over an extended period. To bridge this gap, we created the Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC).
HIC is a student-founded and student-led annual competition that…