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- Social Entrepreneurship or Innovation: Students build, launch and grow a new non-profit, for-profit or hybrid program with a social mission alongside mentors from The Impact Factory, the Healthscape Pillar at DMS, and/or other relevant entities across UT. Previous projects, among others, include Good Apple Foods and Early Bird.
- Capacity-Building: The SE Distinction places students within or alongside a local community health clinic, social services agency or other relevant public service organization to help implement high-level special projects that improve health beyond the clinic. The SE Distinction, in partnership with the community agencies, develops project options aligned with priorities of the Healthscape Pillar.
Potential areas of focus include health equity, health communication, and environmental health, among others. Potential partners include, but are not limited to, Factor Health and the Department of Population Health at DMS. The Distinction works to match students with a project aligned with their interests, as well as faculty with relevant expertise to mentor students.
Consider one example capacity-building project: an MS3 helps implement a social care referral platform, including providing high-level support to local FQHCs implementing the “Model Community”—a community-level social care referral platform project led by DMS.
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