Olivia Balderes
Doctoral Student, Health Promotion, Research and Practice, Columbia University
Olivia Balderes is an MPH Candidate at Mailman in the department of Sociomedical Sciences with a focus on Health Promotion, Research and Practice. She is interested in applying her Intervention Design and Evaluation background to improve community involvement within Precision Medicine programs/studies, maximize efficiency and efficacy of return of genetic results in clinical settings, and explore the determinants of genetic and general health literacy.
Olivia Balderes
Graduate Student, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Olivia Balderes is an MPH Candidate at Mailman in the department of Sociomedical Sciences with a focus on Health Promotion, Research and Practice. She is a Washington Heights native, and received her BA from Barnard College in Creative Writing and Biological Sciences. Olivia currently works in the laboratory of Dr. Krzysztof Kiryluk as both a Clinical Research Coordinator on a number of large national precision medicine initiatives, and as the lab’s manager. She is interested in applying her Intervention Design and Evaluation background to improve community involvement within Precision Medicine programs/studies, maximize efficiency and efficacy of return of genetic results in clinical settings, and explore the determinants of genetic and general health literacy.
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