MIKE Program

Our Goals

• Empower youth to participate in health promotion
  • Integrate health education and career related learning skills
  • Mentor youth to apply, adopt, and advocate for healthy behaviors
  • Equip youth to be health ambassadors
  • Expose youth to health career options
• Promote excellence and equity in health and health care
  • Increase the number and diversity of health care workforce
  • Increase trust between providers and consumers of health care
  • Integrate cultures and generations in health education and promotion
  • Increase service skills of health profession students
  • Promote cultural inclusion in medical education
• Raise awareness about the link between healthy kidneys and overall health and productivity.
  • Increase public knowledge of origins and precursors of kidney failure
  • Promote personal and social behaviors to protect against kidney failure
  • Lead collaboration among community stakeholders, including kidney health professionals, to raise public awareness about the risks of kidney failure and strategies for disease prevention
• Target programs to the medically disadvantaged communities at high risk of kidney failure

Founding Objectives

• Develop peer-to-peer programs to educate youth on the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• Develop peer-to-peer programs to increase trust of the medical community among youth at risk of kidney-related diseases.
• Develop physician-training programs to target medical professionals who treat people at risk of poor kidney health.
• Develop and implement curriculum-based programs to increase overall cardiovascular health and to promote kidney health for grades 6th through 10th.
• Target programs to the medically disadvantaged communities at a high risk of kidney diseases.