QB NEWS
On Saturday, August 19, 2006 the 17 UH-Manoa students who participated in this year’s Quentin Burdick Rural Health Interdisciplinary Program made presentations on the activities they conducted during their six-weeks practicum in neighbor island rural communities. The 17 students represented the disciplines of nursing, public health, social work, medical technology, education and speech-language/audiology and pathology. 
Spalding Auditorium was filled with nearly 100 family members, friends, faculty and neighbor-island community guests who enjoyed a day of presentations, sharing, celebration and a fabulous potluck lunch.
The six teams’ activities at Honokaa, Pahoa, Waimea (on Kauai), Hanalei, Molokai and Lanai were as varied as the sites and the students who participated. Projects included health promotion and disease prevention focused on reducing obesity, nutrition, diabetes, breast cancer, heart health, disaster preparedness, safety issues, self-esteem, and physical fitness. Populations served included young children to kupuna and everyone in between! 
The KHNL news crew arrived just in time to capture a prepared chant by Molokai high school students interested in becoming health professionals who had come to the event as guests of Huli Au Ola (the Maui AHEC office). The news crew also interviewed our program director, Jan Shoultz, and one of the Medical Technology students, Sasha Sullivan, who participated on Molokai in the QB program.
Click on the link below to go to the story and video which is currently available on the KHNL website.
http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5303131
You can also click on the link below to view the story:
KHNL Video 6pm broadcast, August 19, 2006
Mahalo to the organizations who co-sponsor the Quentin Burdick Interdisciplinary Rural Health Program; the University of Hawaii School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, Kauai Rural Health Association and University Health Group. A special thanks to all the students, faculty, site coordinators, community advisory board members and rural community organizations who contributed so much to make this year’s program a success. We gratefully acknowledge Hawaii/Pacific Basin AHEC and Ke Anuenue AHEC for their generous financial support this year.