Madhu Vulimiri '14 always wanted a career that allowed her to make a meaningful difference in the health of our state's communities. Throughout the pandemic, she's done just that by providing crucial resources for families as part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Having grown up surrounded by fields in southeastern North Carolina, Ricardo Crespo is training to practice medicine in the same kinds of rural communities. He’s starting that mission with Carolina’s Student Health Action Coalition. He is also part of the Kenan Primary Care Rural Medical Scholars, a UNC School of Medicine program that prepares students to pursue rural, underserved patient practice in North Carolina.
Not only is the UNC Nutrition Research Institute changing lives of North Carolinians through its research, but it is revitalizing the Kannapolis community.
Student Health Action Coalition, better known as SHAC, is a student-led organization that offers free health services to uninsured and underinsured patients in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Durham.
Learn about one medical student's impact through this group.