McGovern students named Albert Schweitzer Fellows

The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston Galveston (ASFHG) announced 12 students from McGovern Medical School as part of its 2022-23 class.

The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship offers graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to design and implement a yearlong mentored project that addresses an unmet health need for an underserved population. Students are paired with mentors, field experts, and community sites to enhance and extend the services of existing community organizations who serve vulnerable populations, with the goal of creating immediate and lasting impact in the Houston-Galveston area.

The McGovern Medical School fellows join more than 60 students from other UTHealth Houston schools as well as students from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston, Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M, and Texas Southern University to make up the ASFHG 2022-23 class.

The McGovern Medical School Albert Schweitzer fellows are:
Brandon Sarver
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Geena May
Isabel Kilroy
Jahnvi Jain
Mallika Tripathy
Miguel Bonilla Moreno
Myra Kurjee
Nikita Ghosh
Patricia Marie Guzman
Sanjna Tripathy
Tanaya Pampattiwar

The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship uses a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to foster the skills and development of tomorrow’s healthcare leaders. Since 2008 when the fellowship began, fellows have completed projects in areas such as HIV/AIDS care, homeless support, oral health, nutrition, refugee health, mental health awareness mobile health clinics, smartphone health apps, family and teen support groups, healthcare education, and more.

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