Research showcase celebrates innovation, ideas from Brown public health students

Class of 2026

Project: Your Healthcare Inside and Out: A Community-Informed Evaluation of a Digitized Reentry Health Guide

"I took the course PHP 1821: Incarceration, Disparities and Health, which showed me how awful health care is within the prisons and once people leave. After the class, I went to [adjunct assistant professor] Bradley Brockmann and said that I would love to do something to help, and he told me about 'Your Health Care Inside and Out,' a guidebook developed by public health students about 10 years ago that explains the health care system for individuals reentering society from incarceration. I then took PHP 1822, a Community-Based Learning and Research Course that involved applying what we'd learned, and we made a pamphlet of the guidebook.

"The guide has been edited over the years and for my honors thesis, I decided to test how it was perceived amongst reentry health care staff. What we found was that it was perceived to be usable, feasible and acceptable - overall, there were really positive reviews. We found an extra function of the guidebook, which wasn't intentional: that it could be used to train workers, as well. We did receive a few edits, which we're going to apply to the guidebook, and then we're going to start piloting the guide within reentry communities to see how it actually performs."