Albert Einstein College of Medicine has received a $3.25 million grant to expand and restructure its longstanding Bronx Health Opportunities Partnership-Einstein (Bronx HOPE) program, which aims to help students from economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds enter careers in health and medicine.
The Health Resources & Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded the five-year grant to Einstein’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Department of Family and Social Medicine. The project’s co-directors are Lynne M. Holden, MD, Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Montefiore Einstein, and Professor, Emergency Medicine, and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Juan C. Robles, MD ’11, Attending Physician, Family Medicine, Montefiore Einstein, and Associate Professor, Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
“This award enables us to establish new programs, increase the number of high school and college students we reach, and expand and deepen our partnerships with local, state and national institutions that are focused on creating a more diverse medical and health professions workforce,” said Dr. Holden. “We are building on the considerable track record of our existing health career pathway programs and collaborations to ensure that more young people, particularly in our home borough of the Bronx, have the opportunity to become physicians, nurses, researchers and other health professionals.”