Congratulations to Antony, Jasmin, and Joselvin for Graduating from Graduate School!

Congratulations to three of our longstanding team members—Antony, Jasmin, and Joselvin—for graduating from their respective graduate schools and receiving their masters degrees as part of the Class of 2023! Read more below to find out about their time in graduate school and future plans.

 

 

Initially joining our team in October 2018, Jasmin Woo has graduated from UCSF’s Family Nurse Practitioner Program. During graduate school, she accumulated multiple scholarships, including the Delima McDonald Community Scholarship from the United Nurses Association of California & Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP), Strauch L. Family Scholarship, and Early Career Educational Support Scholarship from the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS). In addition, Jasmin was a coordinator for UCSF’s Asian American Pacific Islander Health Disparities elective course and member of Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing. Jasmin is looking forward to embarking on her career as a nurse practitioner to serve patients and their families.

 

 

Joselvin Galeas joined our team in September 2019 with his sights set on attending medical school. During his application cycle, he was one of two students—out of several thousand—accepted to the Dean's Medical Scholars Program at the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. He now completes his Master of Medical Sciences (MMS), where his master's capstone project is a literature review entitled "On Understanding the Migraine: A Closer Look at CGRP and CGRP Receptors." Upon completing his graduate degree, he will continue at the Larner College of Medicine to pursue his Doctor of Medicine (MD).

 

 

Antony Nguyen first joined our team in February 2018 and is now a graduate from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he completed his Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology and an Advanced Certificate in Child, Youth, and Family Health with Delta Omega Honors. During graduate school, he was a Maternal and Child Health Fellow with the American Public Health Association, Student Think Tank Fellow and Guest Editor with the American Journal of Public Health, John D. Solomon Fellow for Public Service with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, FORWARD Fellow in Columbia Mailman Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, teaching assistant for three different undergraduate and graduate level courses (i.e., global health, determinants of health, and epidemiologic research methods), independent student researcher in Columbia Mailman Department of Epidemiology, Co-President of the Trauma-Free NYC Student Advocate Group, research assistant with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, UN International Computing Centre (UNICC) Think-A-Thon Global Challenge 2022 finalist, and selected student interviewer of the 2023 Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health recipient: Anthony S. Fauci, MD.

He completed his practicum project, entitled "Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Multimorbidity within Young Adults, Middle-Aged Adults, and Older Adults: Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS), 2019-2020" with our team during summer 2022. In addition, Antony elected to conduct independent research and completed his project entitled, "Prevalence and Patterns of Adverse Childhood Experienes (ACEs) in Non-Binary Adults." His master's thesis, which was another independent research project, is entitled, "An Intersectional Analysis of Health Inequities in Multimorbidity & Health Risk Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS), 2019-2021."

Antony will be starting as a Public Health Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in the fall, while preparing to apply to MD and PhD programs.