HPREP is a national program founded by the Student National Medical Association to recruit Black, Indigenous, and Latino high school students into the fields of health and medical sciences. This program has expanded to various institutions across the United States including Weill Cornell Medical College (the founding institution), Yale School of Medicine, Duke University, the Sophie Davis Biomedical Education Program at The City University of New York School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina Medical School, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and others. The Harvard Medical School HPREP program offers multiple opportunities for formal and informal mentoring from graduate students, faculty, and medical professionals. It also provides participants with professional development through workshops, research projects, and a science-centered curriculum. By providing exposure to career pathways, the program serves as a pipeline for increasing the number of historically minoritized professionals in the sciences.
