Pembroke Center

What do you do? I am a first-year medical student at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School. I am interested in critical care medicine, particularly within low resource settings. I am currently doing research investigating financial hardship as a post-operative surgical outcome, with pronounced gender and racial disparities. 

How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? My concentration in GNSS taught me to think critically about the systems of power I would enter in my professional life. This feels crucial as a future physician navigating questions of access and equity within a structure not built to achieve those goals. GNSS also taught me to ask deeper questions about what it means to heal. I have come to understand both the importance of healing individual bodies along with the limitations of doing so within systems where violence and harm are actively created and enforced.