Hailey Hoog

Hailey Hoog (she/her) is a first-year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine. She received her BS from the University of Arkansas, where she majored in Biomedical Engineering. At YSM, she is involved with the Native American and Indigenous Medical Student Association and the national Association of Native American Medical Students.

She previously served as an intern with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Arctic Investigations Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) In these roles, she worked on various projects aimed at addressing health disparities in Alaska Native and Native American communities, both through community-level interventions and broader health policy recommendations. Further, she was named a Harry S. Truman Scholarship Finalist with an application that focused onresearch ethics in Indigenous communities, and conducted research on the origins and future directions of Tribal health policy as a Presidential Fellow at the Center for Study of the Presidency and Congress.

Hailey is passionate about using medicine and policy to improve access to healthcare in Indigenous communities. She also firmly believes in the value of including Indigenous perspectives in the curriculum at Yale, as well as promoting educational opportunities for Native American and Alaska Native students interested in medicine.