Swat Clean Hands
"As a community, we should take more reasonable precautions to keep ourselves and one another healthy."
We're organizing a group interested in public health issues to improve Swatties' health by improving their hand hygiene - specifically by getting the school to install hand sanitizer dispensers in suitable locations and by doing the advertising necessary to put hand hygiene on Swatties' minds.
If that description (or the longer one below) makes you interested in helping out, I'd be happy to talk with you further in the medium of your choice (email, phone, in person) about what your ideas and how you could fit in with us.
Meetings
We will next meet on Wednesday, March 7, at 9:00 PM in Kohlberg 116.
At the most recent meeting, we discussed the small clusters of pink-eye and colds that have sprung up over the last two weeks. We also decided to prepare to buy materials for our Satisfaction Protocol pending IRB approval and protocol funding. See the minutes for details.
Contacting Us
We've written up detailed instructions on how to get ahold of us on our Contact Us page but if you're in a rush, you can try:
Contacting Michael:
email: mstone1 [at] swarthmore [dot] edu; phone: x3745; in person: any morning except MWF 9:30-10:20, any evening after 4:30 except Thursday.
Contacting Stephanie
email: skoskow1 [at] swarthmore [dot] edu; phone: x4805 in person: as you can catch her
Long-Run Goals
In the long run, what we really care about is keeping Swatties more healthy. We focus on hand hygiene now because we think that highly-contagious upper respiratory infections have a large negative impact on the people who fall sick and because we know that, in large part, these infections are easily preventable through simple changes like improving hand hygiene. However, we're really very interested in the larger public health situation at Swat, in issues like pandemic preparedness, and in how to get public health on people's minds so that decisions are made with attention paid to their likely impact on public health.
If you have suggestions on other things we should be looking at, please come to our meetings to discuss them or, if the meeting schedule isn't convenient, find another way to let us know what you think.