Short on community health workers, a county trains teens as youth ambassadors

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In Fairfax County, Va., the health department is training high school students to become health ambassadors in underserved communities and get a leg up on future careers in public health.

Anthony Mingo , from the Fairfax Health Department, implored students to consider careers that serve their communities, flanked by Jorge Figueredo from Edu-Futuro and program manager Andrea Scott .Will Schermerhorn/Fairfax County Health Department

Learning about some shady episodes from the history of medicine helped Bonilla understand how the medical field lost trust with some groups.

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