Lamia Ayaz

Lamia Ayaz is a current sophomore at Yale College studying Spanish and Global Health and planning to pursue an MD/MPH. She is an undergraduate fellow with Women's Health Research at Yale, working with Dr. Kelsey Martin and Dr. Margaret Pisani. She also serves as the Deputy Chief of Yale EMS and a volunteer EMT in both Connecticut and Maryland, and she is also and a research assistant at the Yale School of Public Health. She is director of the Referrals Department at Haven Free Clinic and an intern with Harvard Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, and she does screenings of high-risk populations for hypertension with the Hypertension Awareness and Prevention Program at Yale. She also volunteers with Afghan refugees, provides free college application guidance or high-achieving students with financial need, and serves as a Youth Representative to the United Nations World Food Forum. She is a former Howard County Board of Education member, a National Merit Scholar, and a Presidential Scholar Semifinalist.