Project SCORE

Project SCORE (Student Centered Outcomes Research Experience) is a youth participatory action research program to overcome the fact that existing education, prevention, and intervention efforts to improve health outcomes for Mississippi’s youth have been less than successful due to a lack of direct input from affected youth. Project SCORE brings together high school and graduate health sciences students in a year-long informal public health education program and mentored research experience to develop relevant health behavior and promotion research questions, to provide exposure to public health concepts, training in research methods, and to facilitate the development of student-conducted research projects mentored by near-peer graduate health sciences students and faculty.

Project SCORE is funded by an NIH Science Education Partnership Award R25GM142065.