Shelby
Johnson,
BS, MPH
Student
UTHealth Science Center, Houston, TX
Shelby Johnson is a recent MPH graduate from the UTHealth School of Public Health and a first year medical student at Dell Medical School in Austin, TX. She is passionate about serving underserved communities and hopes to impact communities at risk for preventable diseases positively. Previously, she served as co-president for the Healthcare Innovation Collaborative and now serves on the director team.
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…