Academy of Medical & Public Health Services

We hope to create a streamlined and coordinate healthcare access infrastructure for the immigrant families who are currently unable to access medical services. By 2020, we aim bring comprehensive primary care services to 20,000 NYC immigrant residents. In the long term, we aim to encourage effective healthcare utilization within immigrant populations, and lower community healthcare costs by reducing unnecessary emergency room visits as an effect of proper primary care consumption.

We will accomplish our goals by 3 methods:

1) Increase community access of primary care services by organizing grassroots health services access points.
2) Encourage appropriate utilization of health services by increasing community health literacy.
3) Continually inform our decision making and evaluate our progress through integrated community public health research within our clinical programs.

AMPHS is composed of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals not only in the medical sector, but in public policy, health law, social services, fundraising, human capital development, and strategic management. In addition, as a grassroots organization, we have strong community partnerships and embed ourselves in the foundation of the communities we serve.

We have so far provided primary care access and coordination to over 3,000 NYC community members. However, the current community health system is still widely fragmented and difficult to navigate.