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Master's Student Kashvi Gupta standing outside the University of Michigan School of Public Health

Physician, Innovator, Advocate

Kashvi Gupta

Kashvi Gupta didn’t like needles and hated the smell of the hospital. As a physician pursuing a degree in public health, she knows that her own bold steps and her encounters with patients will change her.

Mousumi Banerjee

A Life of Pi and Poetry

Mousumi Banerjee

Spending hours as a child doing math puzzles was only part of Mousumi Banerjee’s preparation for a career in biostatistics, where she now applies rigorous statistical analysis to improve clinical and population-wide health outcomes.

Lisa Richardson

Fighting the Odds to Help Others Fight Cancer

Lisa Richardson

When Lisa Richardson began asking herself why black women died more frequently from breast cancer than white women, her public health training kicked into gear. She knew the question had to be answered—and she knew how to make it into a research question.