"My project is a series of infographics displaying public health in St. Louis city, county and Missouri as a state. The graphs track chronic conditions, drugs of abuse and sexually transmitted infections. The viewer will quickly see that even if in all three locations roughly have the same amount of people who drink, smoke, or have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, the outcomes are completely different. In every single graph, St. Louis city has the most cases compared to the St. Louis county or Missouri. For STIs and drug related deaths, St. Louis city has rates that are almost 2-4 times higher than their county counterpart. There is also an infographic covering the basics of public health and understanding its role in healthcare. Lastly, all three of these infographics are used as teaching tools during SLU American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's science outreach event.

Lab Day is an event that invites local St. Louis high school students to come to Doisy College and run through a clinical case study. With the help of faculty, volunteers and ASBMB members, the high school students will be given lab specimens and various tests to complete just like a medical lab scientist would in the hospital. Examples include blood typing, drug screening (with no real drugs) or urine testing. After completing the lab tests, the students will rule out diseases and create a diagnosis. The high school students will find that the patient passed away from heroin overdose which opens the conversation to the opioid epidemic and other diseases in our community. With students coming from both St. Louis city and county, these infographics at the beginning of the event serve to give context to the health of their neighborhoods and what diseases service providers face on a daily basis."