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In 1999, six Yale undergraduates began teaching health workshops in New Haven public high schools in order to fill the gap left by an underfunded, understaffed district health program. Today, over one hundred Yale volunteers teach (and often serve as the primary source of) health education in twelve New Haven public high schools. In 2003, the founding members of the New Haven group established Peer Health Exchange, Inc. (PHE) in order to replicate this successful program in other communities with unmet health education needs.

From 2004 through the current academic year, approximately 4,000 trained PHE volunteers have taught PHE's health curriculum to over 40,000 low-income 9th grade students in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.

We are currently writing our next strategic plan to chart our impact over the next 4 years.