Student Reserve Corps (SRC)
Student Reserve Corps
The Student Reserve Corps (SRC) is a service group at the Harvard School of Public Health that provides students with the opportunity to gain applied public health experience by assisting with outbreak investigations and other public health emergencies, while at the same time providing local public health agencies with additional personnel needed during public health events such as flu clinics or public health situations like food-borne events such as flu clinics or public health situations like food-borne outbreaks.
The Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness (HSPH-CPHP) leads and coordinates the SRC activities and serves as a network agency between the local and state public health agencies and the students.
Student Reserve Corps Planned Activities
Students will have the opportunity to be engaged in a variety of activities, examples are: participating in the conduction of flu clinics, serving as observers and evaluators in large scale emergency preparedness drills and exercises, providing technical assistance during outbreak investigations, organizing and creating public health educational material related to personal preparedness, and helping with data analysis during large-scale events to assess the agencies' performance and needs.
Existing CPHP networks
- Boston Public Health Commission
- Brookline Department of Public Health
- Cambridge Health Alliance
- Massachusetts Association of Health Boards
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
- Needham Health Department
- Worcester Department of Health and Human Services
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