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A student’s road to medicine and health policy
When Charuta Gavankar applied for admission to START@Yale, a program that gives incoming medical students an early introduction to research, she listed her interests in order to be matched with a mentor. Her list included access to health care, determinants of quality care, and the effect of socio–demographics on quality of care. “Research questions at the intersection of science and economics fascinate me,” Gavankar said. “You don’t always know what’s happening on the front lines of care, and what the implications of policy are.” If anyone’s in a position to explore these topics, it’s Charuta Gavankar, a 21–year–old first–year Yale medical
