An Interview With Madeline Kerner, National Director of Outreach and Development, Peer Health Exchange

FS: Please tell us a little about the organization's history.
MK: In 1999, six Yale undergraduates began teaching health workshops in New Haven [Conn.] public schools in order to fill the gap left by an underfunded, understaffed district health program. In 2003, the founding members of the group established Peer Health Exchange to replicate this successful program in other communities with unmet health education needs. Since then, approximately 2,500 trained PHE volunteers have taught PHE's health curriculum to more than 25,000 low-income ninth graders in NYC, Boston, Chicago, the Bay Area and Los Angeles.