The Island Wave Podcast Community Health Worker Series Episode 4: Maria Isabel Gomez

On this episode we talk to our good friend Maisa, seasoned Community Health Worker and Administrative Manager for Utah AHEC at the University of Utah Division of Public Health. We learn about the projects she is working on to inform parents about opportunities for Youth to secure funding for Medical certifications and careers beginning in Junior High and High School. 

We also learn about a couple of the monthly projects conducted by first year med students to shadow CHWs in their work and to establish an Asylum Clinic. To connect medical students with a foundation in community outreach and cultural humility. 

Book references mentioned in this recording;

1. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town, Brian Alexander . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2021. 320 pp. ISBN 9781250237354, $28.99 (hardcover). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00197939211015142
2. Book Review: Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line Sudhir Venkatesh London/New York: Allen Lane, 2008. 302 + xiv pp. £18.99. ISBN: 0713999934
   Martin O'Brien https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17416590090050010603