S-PHASEC
Students Promoting Health Advocacy and Synchronized Engagement with Communities
Accelerating COVID-19 vaccinations, Empowering tomorrow’s health leaders, & Supporting health equity and access, for all.
S-PHASEC Emergency Response and its associated campaigns were created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We realized that students, and particularly health professions students, are an under-utilized workforce with a wide net of community connections.
Our Mission: Empowering students to aid health campaigns and serve in emergency response through advocacy, community-academic partnership, and open innovation.
Our Vision: We envision a world better prepared to coordinate effective health campaigns and equitable emergency response through systematized student service and strategy synchronized across communities, academia, government, and industry.
We currently lead three campaigns to realize our mission: PIECE, STEP-E, & SpikeSupport.
PIECE Campaign
Public Immunization Education & Community Effort (PIECE) aims to connect local organizations straight to the "source" of information by creating information tool-kits composed of approved messaging from local government, federal, and academic partners to aid in information equity.
We aim to increase information access by empowering trusted messengers of community organizations with comprehensive, timely, and accurate information as it becomes available.
We mobilize health students to lead hyperlocal vaccine communication campaigns to address vaccine hesitancy, combat misinformation, and encourage equitable uptake of safe vaccines.
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STEP-E Advocacy
Student Tools for Emergency Policy Engagement (STEP-E) and Advocacy empowers tomorrow’s health leaders to advocate for policies that improve health equity and emergency response.
To accelerate equitable COVID-19 vaccinations, STEP-E advocates for policy enabling health student service in vaccination, supporting our overburdened healthcare heroes, and communication, building vaccine confidence in underserved and historically marginalized communities. We also seek to realize spatial health equity and policy solutions overcoming barriers to equitable access.
We are grateful to Pres. Biden for encouraging student roles in the National Strategy for COVID-19 and authorizing health students to administer COVID-19 vaccinations via a PREP Act amendment. Check out our press release (Students Advocated, Biden Delivers) to learn more about how our student advocacy drives progress in mobilizing students to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination.
SpikeSupport
Spike Support has created one of the only resources aimed at discussing vaccine trial data accessible to a broad audience. This material is vetted and created in collaboration with vaccine and COVID-19 experts. SpikeSupport aims to equip, train, and support students in fighting vaccine misinformation with an emphasis on "real-time," time-sensitive scientific information resources.
Meet the people behind the mask.
S-PHASEC Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Board of Directors
Danielle Miyagishima, Ph.D.
Danielle Miyagishima is an MD student at Yale and Founding Curator of the Global Shapers New Haven Hub. She led the New Haven PIECE Campaign.
S-PHASEC Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Board of Directors
Apurv Hirsh Shekhar
Apurv Hirsh Shekhar is an MD student at Yale School of Medicine. He previously led National Student Response Network (July ‘20 to March ‘21)
S-PHASEC Co-Founder and Executive Director of SpikeSupport
Haleigh Larson
Haleigh Larson is an MD student at Yale School of Medicine. She founded and led the SpikeSupport team.
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Feel free to contact us with any questions. We welcome allies and collaborators.
Email
hello@s-phasec.org