I am Ph.D. student at Harvard and a resident tutor in Lowell House. My research interests are at the intersection of social science, health and medicine; and my dissertation is on the politics and economics of health in the United States. Prior to coming to Harvard, I studied molecular biology and political science at Yale and politics at Oxford. At Harvard, I am affiliated with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies, the Center for Public Leadership and the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy. I teach in the Department of Government and the Department of Sociology at Harvard, both in large lecture courses as a teaching fellow, and in my own course that is a small, discussion-intensive junior tutorial in government. I advise students as a Concentration Advisor in the Department and the Government Tutor in Lowell House. I also serve as a BGLTS advisor at Lowell. I do clinical research with Dr. Charles S. Day in orthopedics at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School. I also work in Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis's group at the Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School. When not working, I like to have fun running, rowing, hiking, watching movies, and enjoying the San Francisco and Boston restaurants and bars. |