Kayleigh Barrett
Graduate Student, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Kayleigh Barrett is a current MPH candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, working toward a certificate in Global Health. She received her Bachelor’s degree in International Studies with an emphasis in global health and development at the University of Oregon. While studying abroad, her research focused on the power dynamics in research relationships and the ethical implications of the use of over-studied populations in student research. She is new to the east coast, hailing from the Pacific Northwest. In the last three years, she worked as a Research Scientist at the University of Washington in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease and was involved in a structural genomics pipeline for an early structure-based drug design projects targeting a number of pathogens. Her current interests include research ethics, infectious disease, reproductive health and medical anthropology. She is an avid reader and lover of all things coffee.
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