Rose Service Learning Fellows – Page 11 – Field Education and Practice

Hamed Khachan

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Hamed is an MPH-45 in clinical effectiveness candidate, with a strong passion for public health law, policy, and management and aims to alleviate healthcare disparities among diverse and under-served populations. He is also passionate about health tech, patient-centered design. Hamed is an advocate for health in all policies, dedicated to addressing social, economic, and environmental factors to foster more equitable, inclusive communities. He is experienced in partnership-building with communities, non-profit,…

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Yuri Kim

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Yuri is a second-year MPH student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in maternal and child health. Prior to attending Harvard, Yuri worked at a federally qualified health center, focused on delivering comprehensive and integrated primary care, behavioral health, medication-assisted treatment, and dental care to individuals from diverse backgrounds. She is passionate about delivering evidence-based interventions with the goal of enhancing early child development within…

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Addison Kimber

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Addison Kimber is an MPH student in the department of Health Policy and Management with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. She is interested in the connection between adverse childhood events and chronic disease later in life, and aims to create policies to improve the lives of children and families through reducing the effects of structural inequality. She is also interested in understanding how we can streamline program creation…

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Valencia Lambert

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Valencia is a native of Tanzania. Currently, she is a first-year Master of Science student in Global Health and Population department. Her research interests are women’s health and infectious disease epidemiology. In the future, she hopes to contribute to improving the health outcomes of populations in sub-Saharan Africa by employing a concentrated effort that tackles the social determinants of health and implements novel interventions based on epidemiological evidence. Valencia Lambert’s…

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Kwabena Lartey

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Kwabena is an MPH candidate in the department of Global Health. His interests are in Adolescent Health, particularly Sexual and Reproductive Health. Through personal lived experiences, Kwabena realized the need for an effective and safe model for delivering Sexual Health Education to Ghanaian children. He has worked with prior organizations in advancing this cause, and hopes to scale his work to a much larger platform through ‘Books for Him &…

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Jonathan Lee

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Jonathan is an MPH student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department, also working on a dual degree in Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is particularly interested in the built environment determinants of health and how we can improve population health using tools from urban planning and design. This project will focus on engaging with the residents of Allston-Brighton to plan for a healthy and…

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Kevin Linn

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Kevin has worked in strategic health policy and improving access to quality cancer care in Canada for over a decade in not-for-profit organizations and public health agencies. During this time, he was accountable for strategically managing relationships with diverse stakeholders and cancer control and health system partners to align quality improvement efforts. He is currently a Doctor of Public Health degree student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…

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Stephanie Martinez-Fernandez

Stephanie is a storyteller with experience conducting quantitative and qualitative, ethnographic research in the U.S., Morocco, and Myanmar centered around the migrant experience, home-building, and neighborhoods. She is currently a master’s student in the Global Health and Population department. Stephanie’s project, in partnership with the Neighborhood Food Action Collaboration in Boston, focuses on increasing SNAP benefits enrollment through individualized education, outreach, & application assistance to address the household food insecurity…

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Jessica Zamborain Mason

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Jessica is an interdisciplinary quantitative marine scientist passionate about coral reef ecosystems who aims to contribute towards achieving ecologic, social and economic sustainability in the world’s fisheries. Currently, Jessica is a postdoctoral research fellow in planetary health in the departments of nutrition and environmental health. Her research takes a nutritional lens to fisheries, integrating nutritional outcomes into fisheries reference points and examining the consequences of climate change, human use and…

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Manfred Mate-Kole

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Manfred Mate-Kole, a Ghanaian physician and Master of Public Health candidate in the Department of Global Health and Population, is dedicated to using community-based, evidence-driven interventions to tackle intricate health issues, with a particular focus on non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular care and cancer control. Throughout his career, he has explored novel approaches to managing non-communicable diseases and has advocated for the integration of basic life support training into the…

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