Anna Bloom discovered her passion for public health in college and then worked in digital health and special needs education. At OHSU, she has been a lead for the Integrative Medicine Interest Group and the Family Medicine Interest Group and a member of the Food Insecurity Task Force at Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

Laura Levy studied exercise science and minored in Spanish in college. Post-college, she worked with differently-abled children and adults, which sparked her interest in public health and policy. At OHSU, she has served as co-lead for the Psychiatry Student Interest Group and is engaged in child and adolescent psychiatric advocacy and research.

Alexie Carletti developed a love of research working in microbiology and worked as a post-baccalaureate fellow at the National Institutes of Health in immunobiology. Alexie has served as co-lead of the Women’s Health Interest Group and the Medical Students for Choice student group at OHSU and is actively involved in advocacy work and research regarding weight-bias in medicine. At OHSU, she has been working on several cost-effectiveness analyses and various cardiology research projects.

Olivia Curl worked in international development prior to medical school and co-founded a nonprofit media organization to highlight challenges to girls’ education. She came to public health and medicine after continually returning to the links between girls’ education and maternal and reproductive health. At OHSU, she has been engaged in several research projects focused on maternal mortality and reproductive justice. Olivia hopes to integrate her background in international development and project management with her passion for maternal, reproductive and public health as an Ob/Gyn.

Browning Hanes spent most of her time in college working in a psychoneuroimmunology lab studying the effects of cancer and cancer treatments on human behavior but was drawn to public health as an intersection between social justice and medicine. At OHSU, she has served as the co-lead of the Health Policy Interest Group and is actively engaged in various health advocacy projects. She is also involved in research with the Doernbecher Medical-Legal Partnership.

Jenny DiPietro studied global & public health sciences and infectious disease biology in college, participated in a global health program in Tanzania involving policy development and analysis, and worked as a Global and Public Health Fellow at Cornell University. At OHSU, she has engaged in research on fetal/child brain development and psychiatric outcomes. She is particularly excited about working with LGBTQ+ youth and justice-involved youth in her career as a future pediatrician.

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