Meet rising junior Casey Fortson, Rutgers’ first-ever Delta Scholar—a program that grants talented and socially conscious college students the opportunity to combine research training, service learning, and community engagement.
This summer, through the fellowship, Fortson ventured to Mississippi where he realized that three of the biggest health issues affecting underserved populations down south – hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes – were the same plaguing his community in Trenton, NJ.
“It was very interesting to me that two regions of the country with vastly different characteristics share these same health issues amongst vulnerable populations,” says Fortson who is pursuing a major in public health and a minor in political science.
“My thought was, ‘Why is that?’ I think a lot of the time I was just really stunned to see how much different the culture and the landscape and the geography are, but how similar the underlying social issues were.”
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