Natalie Ezem (she/her) is a student in the Master of Science in Global Health and Population program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to her time at Harvard, she received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology with minors in Global Health and Chemistry from Duke University. Natalie also has extensive experience in clinical research as an undergraduate student and as a full-time clinical research coordinator at the Duke Department of Population Health Sciences, where she focused on several research areas, including health equity, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, intellectual and developmental disabilities, health communication, palliative care, and K-12 child nutrition.
In addition to her research experience, Natalie is an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B). She has also served as a public speaker, written and directed a short film, and worked as an actress and co-director of All of the Above, a female-identifying monologue showcase group.
Ultimately, Natalie is passionate about health systems innovation, tackling health disparities, creating new materials to facilitate health communication, and researching challenges to healthcare quality and access for noncommunicable diseases in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa.
