Eva Rest, MS

Eva Rest is an M.D.-Ph.D. student pursuing her Ph.D. in Dr. David Hafler's lab. Her research interests include computational and multidisciplinary approaches to heterogeneity in immune responses, autoimmunity, and long-term sequelae of viral infection. She hopes to use her M.D.-Ph.D. training to integrate clinical care for immunological conditions and infectious diseases with data-driven interventions. Eva is passionate about public health, science communication, and accessibility in medicine. She co-founded and co-leads Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness (MSDCI) at Yale and is involved with disability and accessibility advocacy and research. Eva earned her M.S. in Global Infectious Disease at Georgetown University where she studied respiratory disease dynamics and spatial heterogeneity in vaccination patterns in the lab of Dr. Shweta Bansal.

Previously, she researched harm reduction strategies for substance use disorders at the University of Illinois Chicago's Institute for Health Research and Policy. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University studying global health and health policy.