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Health Equity/Research Interest

In my pursuit of Biology and Anthropology majors and an Inequality Studies minor all at once in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, I have thus far forged an undergraduate academic experience for myself that firmly rests at the intersection of the studies of life sciences as they relate to the human body and experience, of anthropological theory regarding the human species at bodily and at social levels, and of inequalities that lie at the foundation of human society and profoundly affect human life. Simultaneously involving myself in non-academic activities and organizations that explore related topics, I find a major collegiate focus of mine being, in broad terms, the relationship between the physical, anatomical aspects of human beings and the social circumstances that surround them. I seek to investigate ways in which each feeds into the other and, in turn, how obstacles in one realm might be countered in the same efforts that are aimed against corresponding obstacles in the other. The Center is home to endeavors of this very sort in that it hosts efforts to address health concerns as they relate to societal inequalities, thereby working against both at one time.