Grady Healthy Living Volunteer Opportunity for 2nd Years

Background on the project: The Grady Healthy Living student-run organization at Emory SOM has maintained updated resource guides for the city of Atlanta since 2016. The most recent resource guides were published in 2018, and included one version organized by resource category, and one version organized by neighborhood/zipcode. These resource guides, which were initially created for use in the primary care pods at Grady, have now been circulated to the greater Grady hospital system through online pdf access. They allow clinicians and care providers to share updated information on resources address patients’ social determinants of health needs in real time. In order for these resource guides to be useful to our patients, we need to ensure that the information they contain is up to date and organized, especially since many of these organizations have changed/closed since Covid.

Student responsibilities: We are looking for two types of volunteers to assist with this project. 

1. We would like to first identify a volunteer or two who would be willing to spearhead the project, think about how the spreadsheet of resources needs to be organized, how the columns should be labeled, how to make the inputs of the spreadsheet uniform and searchable, etc. 
2. We would like to have a larger number of volunteers to help update the information about the resources. They would verify and update the existing resource guide—this will entail contacting all listed resources/organizations in the current guidebook, editing and reformatting the document as needed. Students will receive faculty mentorship/guidance from the Grady Primary Care division, as well as consulting from the student leadership team of Grady Healthy Living as they work on this project.

Please email zmorton [at] emory [dot] edu if interested!