Stop the Bleed - Research and My Experience 

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In Fall Quarter of 2020, I was a part of a seminar called Violence: Approaches to Response and Prevention with Professor Antia. One of the speakers, Monica S. Vavilala, who is Professor in the University of Washington Medical School and

Director at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center gave a lecture on the Stop the Bleed Campaign launched by the Obama Administration in 2015.

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Stop the Bleed kits are useful to preventing death when hemorrhage is a major risk. These are important because Stop the Bleed kits provide the adequate materials for bystanders to prevent a victim from bleeding out at the scene. Someone can bleed out and die within 5 minutes of an injury. 

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I was interested in why our Campus in Seattle did not have any Stop the Bleed kits, so I reached out to Dr. Vavilala and Dr. Antia to see what I could do as an undergraduate.

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I conducted interviews with several campus figures such as UW Police Department, UW Hall Health, UW Department of Environmental Health & Safety to get a better idea of campus need and campus violence.

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My project began when I began putting together a proposal of Stop the Bleed information that campus departments may refer to when they are deciding whether or not to implement Stop the Bleed kits in their building. In this project, I was able to 

• Initiate theconversation on implementing Stop the Bleed kits on Seattle Campus with professors and campus department heads

• Consult various departments and figures to conduct a needs-based assessment based on past campus violence

• Synthesize results into a proposal detailing history of campus violence and outlook from multiple perspectives in order to advocate for implementation

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See Experiential Learning to see my proposal.