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Graduating senior founds two humanitarian nonprofits during her time at USC
Inspired by her experience at a refugee camp in Greece, biological sciences and global medicine student Lauren Yen launches organizations that improve health care documentation and shelter conditions for vulnerable populations.
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May 5, 2021
Graduating senior Lauren Yen founded two nonprofits following overseas service learning experiences at refugee camps. (Photo: Courtesy of Lauren Yen.)
In high school, Lauren Yen would often help out at her mother’s internal medicine clinic, tidying up documentation and converting paper medical records into electronic ones. When she traveled to a refugee camp in Greece in February 2020, she was struck by how health workers struggled to create a centralized medical recordkeeping system, especially as they relied on paper-based notes for most of their documentation. When papers went missing or health workers didn’t have the records on hand, patients suff
February 5, 2021 in Featured, News
The startup app, which has been entered into several engineering and entrepreneurship competitions, was formed during a two-semester course “Innovation in Engineering and Design for Global Challenges” where students traveled to Lesbos, Greece to help refugees in camps. (Photo courtesy of Frontida Records)
Traveling to Lesbos, Greece last February to help provide refugees with more viable shelter conditions for her “Innovation in Engineering and Design for Global Challenges” course group project, Lauren Yen saw how many refugee camps struggled with the current system of maintaining health documentation, leading to misdiagnosis and difficult-to-process medical information.
Yen, a senior majoring in biological sciences, said she spoke with Radwan Faashtol, one of the camp’s clinicians, and that together they discovered issues with documentation records and its paper-based system, such as maintaining accurate records and sharing medical in