Student Projects

Mary's Center hosts students from various universities providing them the opportunity to apply knowledge gained in the classroom in a real world setting. The research performed by students is extremely beneficial to our services. See past student research projects below.

Ryan White Grant Dental Program Survey Responses
Erica Orsini and Marciel Rojas-Rosario, March 2012
Since 2011, Mary’s Center has been providing dental services to underserved HIV positive D.C. residents using funding provided by the Ryan White Program, Part A. In order to provide an evaluation of this program, surveys were conducted in both English and Spanish with questions addressing three major concerns. The results of these surveys can be found in the links below.
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Pregnancy Outcomes for Hispanic Women in Washington, DC: A Comparison of the Centering Pregnancy Curriculum and Prenatal Education-- Joanna Bloomfield, MPH Thesis Project, GWU
Objective: To evaluate and compare two prenatal programs serving Hispanic women in Washington, DC. The two programs are a prenatal education program provided by a federally qualified health center (FQHC) Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care, Inc. (MC), and a group prenatal care program based on the Centering Pregnancy (Providence Hospital, 2011) curriculum provided by the Providence Hospital Center for Life (PH). 
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Teens and Smoking: Summer 2011 Survey
Mary’s Center’s Smoking Cessation Program, with the invaluable assistance of 4 Summer Youth Employment Teens conducted a survey during the month of July among 51 participants at our Georgia Ave Clinic’s waiting room.  The pool of participants were 30 years old and younger.  The goal of this project is to help in the development of a youth-focused and youth-specific messaging  to prevent and support smoking cessation among adolescents. 
See the results of the survey here.