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Louise Davis
Executive Director, Peer Health Exchange
In 1999, Louise Davis and five other Yale undergraduates began teaching health workshops to teenagers in New Haven public high schools to fill the gap left by an underfunded, understaffed district health program. Today, more than 100 Yale volunteers teach workshops to high school students across New Haven. In 2003, Davis co-founded Peer Health Exchange, Inc. (PHE) in order to replicate this successful pilot program in other communities with unmet health education needs.
Under Davis' leadership, in the last four academic years PHE has trained 800 college student volunteers to deliver health education to 7,000 low-income public high school students in New York City, Boston, and Chicago, seeing strong initial results. In 2008, PHE is launching its next site in the Bay Area and is pursuing a five-year growth plan to deepen and broaden its impact nationwide.
Davis serves on the board of directors of Dwight Hall at Yale—Yale's Center for Public Service and Social Justice—and volunteers with the Hole in the Wall Gang Camps. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History in 2003. She was born and raised in San Francisco, California.