Eva Rest, MS

Eva Rest is an M.D.-Ph.D. student. Her research interests include computational approaches to heterogeneity in immune responses to infection, the biology of infectious diseases, vaccine efficacy, and public health. Eva hopes to use her M.D.-Ph.D. training to integrate clinical care for infectious diseases and immunological conditions with data-driven interventions.

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.

Eva is passionate about disability representation 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.