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I am originally from Ethiopia but also grew up in Zimbabwe and the Congo. Through my experience living in these different settings, the role of diseases, health disparities and environment made a lasting impact. This realization influenced my decision to gain the knowledge and research skills to prevent and control public health challenges in Africa. I completed my BA in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. I studied the MPhil in Epidemiology at Cambridge and through the Gates Cambridge scholarship. I finished medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and am resident in the Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine Program at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. I hope to be part of efforts for continued policy, practice and research development in Africa as a public health physician.

Previous Education

Johns Hopkins University
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

I graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2011, earning an Honours BSc in Geological Sciences. For my undergraduate honours thesis I studied the mineralogy and geochemistry of a recently discovered class of mineral deposit in British Columbia. The goal of my work was to assist in creating an exploration model for this deposit type. My main geologic interests involve the processes behind the formation of various ore deposits, and I have worked for Canadian mining companies, completing geologic mapping to explore for economic mineralization. At Cambridge I will work under Dr. Marian Holness, studying the textural and geochemical signatures of late-stage magmatic liquids at the Skaergaard Intrusion in Greenland. I will relate the mineralization processes of the Skaergaard Intrusion to those of the Bushveld Intrusion in South Africa using microstructural analysis and geochemistry. After completing my MPhil in Earth Sciences I plan to pursue a career in economic geology.

Previous Education

Laurentian University
University of British Columbia

My investigations are based on developing paradigms of executive function and decision making as indices of corticostriatal function, sensitive to neuropsychological deficits seen in neurodegenerative conditions and following brain damage. Techniques include fMRI and pharmacology of disease modifying as well as cognitive enhancing drugs, such as levodopa and atomoxetine. Current research interests lie in the domain of Parkinson’s disease and dementia, and developing neuropsychological and neuroimaging methods to improve early and accurate diagnosis, with a view to tailoring pharmacotherapy. In addition to my empirical work in neuroscience, I am interested in philosophical issues surrounding the concept of disorder in the cognitive, affective and psychiatric domains; the social implications of neuroscientific advances.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil Biological Sciences 2003
University of Pennsylvania BA Biological Basis of Behavior 2001

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-kelly-mphil-mshn-cmpp

Among all of the Social Sciences, Social Anthropology has certain unique characteristics that captivated me as an undergraduate student at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil. Instead of defining social life in advance of its enquiry, the discipline defies any static conception or model of it. It does so by investigating the images that different peoples construct of humanity and society. Anthropological knowledge is thus inseparable from the countless situated knowledges it studies, which are irreducible to simple research objects. The people with whom I have decided to ally myself in this joint project are the Indigenous peoples of Lowland South America and, more specifically, the Boe (Bororo), inhabitants of the Central-Brazilian plateau. During my master's degree at the Museu Nacional (UFRJ), I investigated how kinship relations and name transmission weave the intricate socio-cosmological architecture of the Bororo. In my PhD at the University of Cambridge, I will produce an ethnographic account based on long-term fieldwork of this people's ritual life.

Previous Education

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Social Anthropology 2021
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Social Sciences 2019

Gates Cambridge Scholar 2011-15; Editor-in-Chief, The Scholar, 2011-2012; VP, Scholars' Council 2013-14

Current Affiliation: Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Global Awards, NYU Shanghai

Dr. Kent is a translational neuroscientist researching Alzheimer's disease, sleep, and circadian rhythms. She is currently a Research Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Previous Education

Yale University M.Sc. Behavioral Neuroscience 2011
Simon Fraser University B.A. Psychology 2009

The Gates has provided me with an incredible opportunity to explore connections between my undergraduate work in literary theory and the history of science. I hope to chart the historical development and internal logic of such humanistic pursuits as poetry and criticism as they coincide with developments in the more "proper" sciences.

My passion is helping our society become more sustainable; I work with large companies to decrease their environmental and social impacts.

I was born in South Korea and grew up in the Philippines. I chose to attend college in the United States and specifically Yale for the quality of the liberal arts education offered in these places, and, by a similar line of reasoning, chose to major in the Humanities. Like many a hero (or antihero) of the humanistic tradition, I wandered through several disciplines, areas and eras of interest, but I found myself returning time and again to the works of Plato. At Cambridge, I hope to continue reading Plato, focusing this time on Plato’s use of stories and myth within the context of his political philosophy, as well as the context of intellectual history at large. The issue at stake - namely, the relationship between stories and the communities that hear them - is one that is particularly dear to my heart. I hope, one day, to share my love of reading and writing on a global scale, beginning with the Cambridge community.

I am a Teaching and Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Through my teaching role, I am pursuing work on epistemic justice and the promotion of Southern knowledges (plural) and epistemologies. In this regard, I have co-initiated an international seminar series entitled: 'The politics of knowledge building in education and international development', at the Faculty of Education through which I aim to generate conversations around the politics and hegemonies of global knowledge production in my field.
I completed my Ph.D. on gender, education, and development from the Faculty of Education, the University of Cambridge in 2020. My Ph.D. research focused on women's agency in highly constrained circumstances. I have drawn extensively on the Human Development and Capability Approach in this work.
More recently, my research has focused on social justice and equity in education within the UK context. Acknowledging that children from ethnic minority backgrounds are worst affected by Covid-19, I am engaged in research on the learning experiences of children from ethnic minority families in England. In this regard, I am involved in a project funded through the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme on the learning experiences of secondary school children from ethnic minority families in England during Covid-19.
I am also a lead researcher with colleagues from the universities of Durham and Newcastle on a British Academy-funded project, 'Bridging the Local and Global: Women’s Spaces and Collectives' with women from ethnic minority families in the UK. This project aims to understand how women from ethnic minority families in England create collective spaces for action and reflection, for themselves and their families. Through this research, we seek to argue that any global understanding of women's efforts needs to seek knowledge from women themselves in their local contexts.

Previous Education

Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar
University of Peshawar

Links

https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/khalid
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliya-khalid-b2b19463

Although most areas of medicine appeal to me, I have developed a deep interest in public health and epidemiology. I have worked on projects involving surveillance of Pneumococcal and Hemophilus Influenzae and have also developed an interest relating to epidemiology of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. An Mphil in Epidemiology will be an ideal stepping stone for future research work as I look forward towards a career seeking a solution to the public health issues facing the society.

I am a Sociologist of Education with a particular focus on opportunity, equity, and constraints in education systems. I work at the intersection of research, policy, and design to promote equitable access to education.

My research has previously explored how schooling in a child’s non-native language can make learning inaccessible, how household and gender norms complicate accessing higher education for female students, and the impact of funding and governance on the success of schools. Most notably, in my four years of working with The Citizens Foundation, Pakistan, I designed and implemented a program to provide students with the right to learn in their own language.

My PhD at the University of Cambridge focuses on the risks, resilience, and future life chances of out-of-school children in my home country, Pakistan.

Previous Education

University of Oxford Social Policy 2023
Stanford University Sociology and Education 2021

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/minha-khan-32a129a6