{"id":15045,"date":"2019-05-01T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=15045"},"modified":"2023-06-08T22:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:11:19","slug":"husky100-neha-chhabra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/01\/husky100-neha-chhabra","title":{"rendered":"ACTing to transform campus, community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The University of Washington Bothell is mostly a commuter campus, \u201cbut the activities and the things you do on campus can help change that feeling,\u201d says Neha Chhabra, who has been recognized as one of the Husky 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190315-neha-chhabra-0035-edit.jpg\" alt=\"Neha Chhabra\" class=\"wp-image-27819\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biology major, who graduated after winter quarter 2019, said the change for her was <a href=\"\/sea\/studentleaders\/act\">Achieving Community Transformation (ACT)<\/a>, a student organization supported by the Office of Community Based Learning and Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First as a volunteer and then in a paid position, Chhabra was involved in ACT for four years. She was mentored by Shauniece Drayton, her adviser and the civic engagement coordinator at ACT. Bridging student and community partners, Chhabra helped plan activities related to civic engagement and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Growing empathy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The event that started Chhabra in ACT? An Alternative Spring Break project volunteering at a food bank in Burlington, Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was able to see people who don&#8217;t have access to food and was able to see issues of food insecurity,\u201d Chhabra said. \u201cHow can I go home and have a perfect meal, but these people don\u2019t? It\u2019s just not fair.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chhabra attributes much of her empathy to growing up in a home where her paternal grandparents lived, seeing the cultural heritage they brought from India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy grandparents taught me to be humble and be aware of my space and my surroundings and to not take anything for granted,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking her grandmother to medical appointments and learning about Medicare and Medicaid also influenced Chhabra in her decision to go into community health and work as a dentist. The decision was reaffirmed in 2016 when she participated in the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, now the <a href=\"https:\/\/cedi-web01.s.uw.edu\/pre-health-programs\/shpep\/\">Summer Health Professions Education Program<\/a>, on the UW\u2019s Seattle campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community care<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI learned that so many dentists don&#8217;t take patients who don&#8217;t have health insurance, which is appalling to me,\u201d Chhabra said. \u201cI hate that community health centers get backed up with all these people who have oral health issues and don&#8217;t have access to a dentist. Then they have to get root canals, or they have huge problems that are so detrimental to the rest of their health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of the summer program is to strengthen the academic proficiency and career development of students underrepresented in the health professions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a great opportunity for students who are exploring the public health field and just seeing if they want to be a dentist, a doctor, an optometrist, anything,\u201d said Chhabra, who also worked several months as a dental assistant. \u201cI know what I\u2019m getting myself into.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chhabra also took park in a public health related study abroad program in the fall of 2017 in London, comparing health systems in the United States and United Kingdom. With applications in the works, Chhabra hoped to begin dental school in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chhabra has come a long way at UW Bothell, and it\u2019s not just the commute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Husky 100 at UW Bothell, Neha Chhabra plans to become a dentist so she can provide health care to people who lack access to medical resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202,211,204],"tags":[257],"school":[],"class_list":["post-15045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","category-honors-and-awards","category-students","tag-health"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":null,"link_2":null,"link_3":null,"link_4":null,"link_5":null},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":null,"button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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