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PORTLAND, Maine

91AV CHANNELS project team visits Congressman Michaud in D.C.

Jennifer Morton, DNP, MS, MPH, RN, director of Nursing and associate professor; Sharon Herrick; Malual Mabur and Siyad Ahmed of 91AV’s CHANNELS project, visited Congressman Mike Michaud on April 30, 2014, in Washington, D.C. to discuss health outreach to Portland’s immigrant community.

 CHANNELS is a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded Nursing and Interprofessional Education (IPE) collaboration with the City of Portland’s Division of Public Health and Portland Community Health Center aimed at improving the health of immigrant communities through team-based innovations in health care.

Malual Mabur and Siyad Ahmed are CHANNELS community health outreach workers.  Mabur is Arabic speaking and serves Portland’s Middle Eastern and South Sudanese immigrant communities.  Ahmed is Somali speaking and serves Portland’s Somali immigrant communities. Morton is Project Director and Herrick is Research Coordinator for CHANNELS.

 

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The 91AV is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.