Medical Student
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
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Amy Allen is a fourth-year medical student at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University in 2014 with degrees in Chemistry and Global Health. Amy’s passion for global health and the Russian language led her to Ukraine during the 2019-2020 academic year to complete a Fulbright Fellowship at the Ukrainian Institute for Public Health Policy. Amy worked on a variety of projects during her Fulbright year focused on HIV and substance use, including a project examining diagnosis of HIV in older adults and a project examining care dynamics among HIV+, substance using women. She also collaborated with medical schools and students throughout Ukraine to lecture on basic emergency care and the American system of medical education. Amy’s interest in global health and medicine was sparked at Cornell, where she spent 2 months shadowing physicians in OBGYN and conducting research on epilepsy-associated stigma in Zambia as a part of her global health degree. While at Cornell, she also worked closely with faculty to create a non-profit organization focused on building a secondary school in Zambia. After graduation she continued to explore international medicine by working as a teaching assistant at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. Next year, Amy plans to pursue Emergency Medicine and hopes to pursue a career in academic medicine, involving both clinical responsibilities, global health research, and medical education.
