Brittany Satterly, a P2 student on the Memphis campus, received the Innovation in Immunization Practices Award from the APhA Foundation this month.
The award is an incentive grant and will provide $1,000 toward Satterly’s project, “My Friend Sarah Told Me…Empowering Women through HPV Vaccination Campaign.” Satterly said the project will target college-age women and partner with organizations such as sororities to disseminate information on HPV vaccination.
“The idea is using social media and interactive presentations to have women learn about HPV vaccination and then to disseminate that information out to their micro-communities,” Satterly said. “I want to make sure women feel empowered by being knowledgeable to make a decision about the vaccine.”
Satterly said she also hopes to present pharmacists as more than just drug experts.
“Of course, we’re drug experts, but we also have a greater medical knowledge that can be a real resource for communities,” she said.
