Student Leadership Circle Committee

The Student Leadership Circle Committee (SLCC) is a student organization that develops activities enhancing leadership through the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development. The SLCC aims to promote opportunities for students to hone their leadership skills, learn about the role of leadership from leaders in the field, and make a connection between what is learned in the classroom and real world situations. Committee members are chosen from diverse disciplines. The committee primarily works with the committee sponsor, but often will collaborate with other administrators and faculty from HSPH and other schools within the university.

SLCC MEMBERS for 2012-2013

• Akweley Ablorh

  SLCC Role: Leadership Seminar Facilitator
  Degree and Department: SD, Epidemiology
  Concentration or Research Interest: Genetic Epidemiology
  Hometown/Home country: Bloomington, MN

  Aspirations: Akweley hopes to incorporate her love of teaching, discovery, and leadership development into her future career.  On a more personal note, she would enjoy making travel a more integral part of her three loves so that she can strengthen her skills with other languages.
  Before HSPH: Before starting her studies at HSPH, Akweley gained experience with a few large companies in Minnesota including General Mills, 3M, and Boston Scientific while volunteering with the Red Cross in her spare time.  Akweley completed her undergraduate in biochemistry at Harvard College and her master’s in biostatistics at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

• Ashkan Afshin

  SLCC Role: Marketing

• Alp Atik

  SLCC Role: Marketing Facilitator
  Degree and Department: MPH, Department of Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Concentration in health policy, research interest health systems
  Hometown/Home country: Sydney, Australia and Istanbul, Turkey

  Aspirations: Practice medicine as a clinician-scientist and become involved in national/international health policy, specifically in health care system reform and development.
  Before HSPH: I worked as a resident at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia and was involved in a variety of national/international global health groups during medical school.

• Monica Garcia

  SLCC Role: Marketing Facilitator
  Degree and Department: MPH, Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Health care management, information technology, health innovation and entrepreneurship, community health clinics
  Hometown/Home country: Los Angeles, CA

  Aspirations: Ms. Garcia plans to transform health care through  entrepreneurship and leadership in health care technology and innovation. She plans to stay highly involved in her community activities.
  Before HSPH: Ms. Garcia has consulted for SEIU-UHW, Public Counsel Law Center, and Change to Win. She earned a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies, a Masters in Information Science, and a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies from the University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA, she developed a medical mobile apps class and taught classes on information literacy, medical database research, and the NIH Public Access Policy.

• Zachary Gerson-Nieder

  SLCC Role: Leadership Seminar Facilitator
  Degree and Department: SM2, Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Health policy translation/decision making
  Hometown/Home country: Boston, MA

  Aspirations: The current communication pathways between public health and public policy need to be strengthened in order to make well-informed decisions. Zach want’s to focus his future work on helping create policy that is based on sound evidence that leads to effective, sustainable solutions to health related issues.
  Before HSPH: Zach previously worked at HSPH as a research assistant at the Center for Health Decision Science, as well as the Harvard Global Health Institute. He assisted in the decision making process regarding the introduction of new vaccines within several Caribbean and Latin American countries. He also project-managed a team of researchers for a grant focused on finding cost-effective approaches for reducing maternal mortality in various developing countries.

• Shane Kiernan

  SLCC Role: Leadership Skills Facilitator
  Degree and Department: Master of Science, Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Concentration in public health leadership
  Hometown/Home country: Dublin, Ireland

  
  Before HSPH: Prior to HSPH I worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where I spent two years as a pro-bono consultant to governments around the world. Before joining CHAI and prior to a stint as an entrepreneur in Ireland I was an investment banker in London where I worked in Debt Capital Markets for Deutsche Bank and Private Equity for BlackRock.

• Rachel Liao

  SLCC Role: SLCC Co-chair
  Degree and Department: PhD in Biological Sciences in Public Health, Division of Biological Sciences, Genetics and Complex Diseases
  Concentration or Research Interest: Cancer genetics and genomics
  Hometown/Home country: Lansdale, PA

  Aspirations:Rachel does translational research in a cancer research lab at the Broad Institute and is interested in using her knowledge about the genetic origins of disease to work in the public sphere, either in policy advising or another field that bridges scientific knowledge and discovery with society. She hopes to work to make such knowledge available and understandable so that the public can be benefited by it.
  Before HSPH: Before coming to HSPH, Rachel worked as a research technician in the thoracic surgery department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She began her PhD degree in 2008.

• Shelley Han Liu

  SLCC Role: Leadership Seminar Facilitator
  Degree and Department: PhD, Biostatistics
  Concentration or Research Interest: Genetics, infectious disease
  Hometown/Home country: Chicago, IL

  Aspirations: Shelley is interested in global health, infectious disease and cancer biology research. She aspires to use her quantitative skills to further areas of personalized medicine and cancer genomics, and improve healthcare treatment options.
  Before HSPH: Prior to HSPH, Shelley completed undergraduate at Northwestern University, where she majored in Statistics and Physiology.

   

• Katie McKillen

  SLCC Role: Collaboration Facilitator
  Degree and Department: Master of Science, Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Management concentration, provider effectiveness
  Hometown/Home country: Barrington, IL

  Aspirations: Katie hopes to incorporate her interest for public health and leadership to improve inefficiencies in health care service delivery. She is specifically interested in aging and elderly care, preventive care, and access to services.
  Before HSPH: Katie graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Human and Organizational Development, specializing in Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness. Upon graduation, she worked in hospital revenue cycle management addressing issues related to access to care and patient financial advocacy. She later joined the Peace Corps to combine her interests in international health, travel, and community development and recently returned from serving two years in Armenia.

• Neil Murthy

  
  SLCC Role: Marketing Facilitator
  Degree and Department: MPH
  Concentration or Research Interest: Concentration in global health.
  Hometown/Home country: San Antonio, TX

  
  Aspirations: After completing public health school and medical school, Neil aspires to become a public health physician heavily involved with humanitarian assistance and disaster preparedness.  He is pursuing a Masters of Public Health with a focus in Global Health in order to build a foundation to one day work with international organizations that provide services to displaced populations affected by conflicts and natural disasters.
  Before HSPH: Prior to attending HSPH, Neil completed his third year of medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas. He also did extensive field work in India, El Salvador, and Jamaica, working to address the health care needs of underserved populations.

• Angelico Razon

  
  SLCC Role: Collaboration Facilitator
  Degree and Department: MPH, Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Management.
  Hometown/Home country: Corona, CA

  Aspirations: Angelico hopes to apply the skills and experience gained from HSPH to improving management and access of healthcare delivery systems in medically underserved populations. As a hopeful primary care physician, his goal to develop better incentives for ensuring better health outcomes for traditionally overlooked communities.
  Before HSPH: After graduating from Harvard College in 2008, Angelico pursued a one-year nonprofit management fellowship at Phillips Brooks House Association, a student community service and social action organization. He is currently between third and fourth year of medical school at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in the PRIME program, a joint masters and medical program emphasizing leadership in medically vulnerable communities.

• Martin Reidy

  SLCC Role: Leadership Seminar Facilitator
  Degree and Department: SM in Society, Human Development and Health
  Concentration or Research Interest: Concentration in management. Interests are access to care and disparities of care within homeless and marginalized communities.
  Hometown/Home country: Tulsa, OK

  Aspirations: Martin plans to work in a community health network focused on providing and improving care for the homeless and other marginalized populations domestically. With a strong background in leading teams and project development, he plans to participate in community organizing to empower groups to become self-supportive and capable of addressing and working to improve their access to care.
  Before HSPH: Prior to arriving at HSPH, Martin served in the U.S. Army for the past 12 years. His primary responsibilities centered on medical plans and operations in support of humanitarian and combat missions.

• Harpreet Sood

  SLCC Role: Leadership Skills Facilitator
  Degree and Department: MPH, Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Health Policy and Health Systems Delivery.
  Hometown/Home country: London, UK

  Aspirations:My career aspirations are in improving the delivery of healthcare and most importantly access to healthcare. I am very much interested in innovation and healthcare entrepreneurship and how we can integrate this into the healthcare environment in order to provide high quality and safe healthcare for our patients.
  Before HSPH: Before HSPH, I trained at King’s College London Medical School and spent a year at Imperial College Business School. I was working as a clinician in the UK as part of my residency training. In addition to I was very much involved with improving healthcare delivery and quality improvement in hospital environment. I am also the founder of Diagnosis Internship Network which provides formal internships for medical students in the health policy, management, journalism and business organisations.

   

• Audrey Stanton

  SLCC Role: Leadership Seminar Facilitator
  Degree and Department: SM, Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Management Concentration
  Hometown/Home country: San Diego, CA

  Aspirations: Upon graduation, Audrey aspires to be a part of the exciting changes taking place in the US healthcare system by returning to work for a hospital or other healthcare delivery system, with a focus on performance improvement or strategy.
  Before HSPH: Prior to attending HSPH, Audrey worked at Triage Consulting Group, a San Francisco-based healthcare management consulting firm serving hospital systems throughout the United States.

   

• Agnes Terry

  SLCC Role: Collaboration Facilitator
  Degree and Department: Master of Science, Health Policy and Management
  Concentration or Research Interest: Management concentration
  Hometown/Home country: Memphis, TN

  Aspirations: I aspire to improve peoples’ lives and influence the health sector’s quality and cost issues simultaneously through advancing prevention, the value of a healthy lifestyle, and health and wellness programs.
  Before HSPH: Before HSPH, I taught English in China, worked on a presidential campaign, and advocated for home health and hospice in Washington, DC.