2024-2025 Fellow

Dr. Yilu Qin, MD, was a Yale Fogarty Fellow through the Global Health Equity Scholars Program (2023–2024). In Malaysia, she explored telemedicine models to support individuals struggling with addiction and transitioning back to community life after incarceration. Prior to this, she served as a telemedicine doctor at the West Haven VA Hospital (2020–2023), providing care to rural and remote veterans. Dr. Qin completed her residency training in Yale’s Internal Medicine-HIV Training Track in 2020. Additionally, she was a Fulbright Scholar (2015–2016), studying HIV self-testing in China. Her career focuses on improving healthcare access for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations.

Michael Zhu is currently a medical student at the Tufts University School of Medicine pursuing a MD/MPH dual degree. He graduated with honors from the University of Connecticut receiving a BS/BA in molecular and cell biology along with economics. Prior to medical school he worked as a research assistant at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy on the payment and delivery reform team. While in medical school, he continued to study health systems as a Value-Based Health Care Summer Research Intern at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. He has also conducted research and published on other topics including heart transplantation, cardiac surgery, and health care financing in low- and middle-income countries.

Site: Peking University

Project Title: Moving from a Fee-for-Service to Diagnosis-Intervention Packet Payment

System: Assessing Impact on Surgical Outcomes in a Chinese Province”