Student leaders
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Bryan Collinsworth UAEM Executive Director Bryan Collinsworth has a broad background in policy advocacy, organizing, management and communications. As the national student coordinator for STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) in 2006, Bryan mobilized student activism against global human rights violations. He subsequently served on the Capitol Hill staff of Congresswoman Betty McCollum, the founder of the Congressional Global Health Caucus. Most recently, Bryan directed online organizing and advocacy for the New York Working Families Party, running issue campaigns for economic justice and government and corporate accountability. Bryan studied global politics and history at Sarah Lawrence College, from which he holds a B.A., and UCLA. |
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Pratik Chhetri, Central Michigan University A Nepali citizen, Pratik is an M.S. Chemistry candidate at Central Michigan University. Pratik has been involved with UAEM for more than three years, and this is his third year in the UAEM CC. Currently, he serves as one of the International Chapter Outreach Coordinators under 'Empowerment Working Group'- he is in charge of guiding existing chapters and helping to start new chapters in developing countries. |
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Taylor Gilliland, University of California San Diego Louis Taylor is a fourth year graduate student in the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of California San Diego and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He is now in his third year as a member of the UAEM Coordinating Committee as part of the Chapter Outreach and Empowerment teams as well as head of the UAEM chapter at UCSD. He formerly served as the Grassroots Outreach Coordinator for the Steering Committee of the Student Global AIDS Campaign while at the University of Florida. |
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Andreas Pilarinos, Simon Fraser University Andreas is a third year undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., Canada. He is working towards a B.Sc. Infectious Diseases, and is extremely interested in the field of Neglected Diseases. He is currently volunteering in a Malaria, Chagas, and Dengue research lab, where he studies the effects of trypsin levels in Aedes aegypti on Dengue viral loads. He has been involved with UAEM for two years, and is co-leading the Neglected Disease Working Group. Andreas is also leading the UAEM chapter at Simon Fraser University. Andreas foresees a productive year for UAEM, and hopes to have global access licensing adopted both at his university as well as by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In his spare time, Andreas can be found in the local mountains of Vancouver enjoying the beautiful Canadian wilderness.
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Karolina Maciag, Harvard Medical School Karolina is a sixth-year MD/PhD Candidate at Harvard Medical School/MIT-HST and a native of Poland. She graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Biochemical Sciences in 2004 with a research focus on computational biology. She currently studies innate immunity to intracellular bacteria in the Department of Immunology. As a Radcliffe Volunteer Fellow, she has spent six months working with local health promoters and medical teams in indigenous Guatemalan villages. Karolina is active in the Harvard and MIT chapters of UAEM, the ND Working Group, and is a co-coordinator for the CC's International Outreach. |
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Carolyn Treasure, University of North Carolina Carolyn is a fourth-year undergraduate student studying economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduation, Carolyn will attend medical school. She also directs the UAEM chapter at UNC. |
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Laura Musselwhite, Duke University Laura is in her final years of medical school at Duke University. Since 2009, she has led the Innovation & Neglected Diseases Working Group at Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Her work at UAEM continues to focus on exploring novel solutions to improve research and development of biotechnologies for neglected diseases including the use of open source science platforms and the open access movement. In the last two years, Laura has completed a CRTP Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the field of HIV biomarker discovery and obtained an MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She plans for a career at the crossroads between global public health and translational academic research centered in communicable diseases affecting marginalized populations. |
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Hannah Brennan, Yale Law School
Hannah is J.D. candidate in the class of 2013 at Yale Law School. She is currently the Co-Director of the Yale Chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Hannah wrote her undergraduate thesis on the effects of the intellectual property rights stipulations of free trade agreements on access to medications and pharmaceutical industrialization in middle and low-income countries. In the future, Hannah intends to research alternative patent regimes, such as medicine patents pools, as well as prize-oriented legislation for neglected tropical disease research. Prior to law school, Hannah completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Lima, Perú on labor and human rights abuses in the domestic housework industry. She has also worked in India as research assistant for an economic study of Tuberculosis treatment and various clinics Central America.
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Alexander Lankownski, Boston University Alex is a medical student at Boston University and is originally from Maine. He is currently taking a year off from studies to pursue research on the structural and biologic determinants of HIV treatment outcomes in rural southwest Uganda. He is grateful to have been involved with UAEM for over 3 years now. Prior to medical school, he worked for several years in both academic and industry research laboratories doing applied microbiology aimed at developing novel therapies for infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic diseases. Additionally, he has spent time conducting research on Chagas disease immunology in Lima, Peru. As an undergraduate he majored in Biochemistry at Dartmouth College. |
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Sonja Babovic, University of British Columbia |
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Diane Singhroy, McGill University Diane is a third year PhD student in Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her research is focused on HIV- host interactions in the context of innate immunity. During her undergrad she worked for the Office of Clinical Trials at Health Canada and completed an internship at the National HIV and Retrovirus Laboratory in Ottawa. Diane has been a member of the UAEM McGill chapter for over two years where she has worked for the campaign to pass Canada’s Access to Medicine’s Regime (CAMR) Reform Bill C-393. She has been a human rights and HIV/AIDS activist since 2004 in issues ranging from advocating against the closing of harm reduction sites to anti-poverty campaigns with OXFAM. In her free time she likes to play soccer, go backcountry canoe camping and read while listening to her Bob Dylan records. |
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Daniel Hougendobler, Emory University Daniel is a fourth year JD/MPH student at Emory University. He has been active in the Emory chapter of UAEM for four years, was a member of the Policy Working Group in 2010 -2011 and is excited for his first year on the Coordinating Committee. He has researched PEPFAR implementation in Rwanda, traveled across Haiti interviewing water technicians, and spent the past summer working for the Medicines Patent Pool in Geneva. When not consuming highlighters at an alarming rate, Daniel enjoys hiking in northern Georgia and traveling to warm places. He is currently reading through the Norwegian Book Clubs' list of "100 Best Books." |
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