Friday, May 1, 2026

Abdoulie Njai, Micaela Torres and Margareta Matache

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Abdoulie Njai is a medical student at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, and is currently obtaining his Masters in Public Health with an emphasis in Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (anjai@hsph.harvard.edu). Micaela Torres is a medical student at the Charles R. Drew/UCLA Medical Education Program, and is obtaining her Masters in Public Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (micaelatorres@hsph.harvard.edu). Margareta Matache is an Instructor and the Director of the Roma Program at Harvard University (mmatache@hsph.harvard.edu).

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