Schoolhouse Health

UHCOP Students Provide Wellness Screenings, Medication Safety Awareness at Mayor's Back to School Fest Aug. 16 at UH

For the second year, UH College of Pharmacy Pharm.D. students provided free wellness screenings to hundreds of adults and medication safety education to several dozen schoolchildren during the Houston Mayor's Back to School Fest at the UH campus. 

UHCOP students provided nearly 500 blood pressure and blood glucose screenings for adults attending the event as well as presented medication safety education awareness through the interactive "Is it Candy or Medicine?" identification game. 

"Our volunteers also helped in the Immunization section by reviewing shot records that the parents brought in and making recommendations for appropriate vaccinations
via the national Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guidelines," said Bianca Romero, fourth year Pharm.D. student and APhA-ASP Operation Immunization senior chair.

With more than 7,300 adult and child attendees, Romero estimated UHCOP volunteers impacted more than 1,000 through the screenings and awareness outreach activities. 

For more about the event, visit the City of Houston newsroom.