Seven UT Southwestern Medical School students have been selected as Dallas-Fort Worth Albert Schweitzer Fellows for projects addressing digital literacy, smoking cessation, health care navigation, and health care access.

Leah Carter, Isabel Garcia, Esha Hansoti, Merin John, Rosalind Ma, Hasan Seede, and Gabriele Slaughter will spend the next year learning to effectively address social factors that impact health and developing lifelong leadership skills as part of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, named after famed physician-humanitarian Albert Schweitzer who was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Schweitzer Fellowship allows the Fellows to not only learn how to innovate and lead, but also gives them the opportunity to learn from the community they work with as well as the rest of the Fellows in their cohort, said Courtney Roy, Program Director of the Fellowship. These students will have the chance to create positive change with the people they serve through their Fellowship projects.

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