I found learning about policy to be the most important takeaway for me from the GDB program. One key implication of this is that the world’s scientists and researchers and healthcare providers working on new ways to preserve health depend on a whole other sector of bureaucracy, government, and rulemakers to ensure that their discoveries become a reality. 

At Davis, this inspired me to join RESURG, a program that exposes its undergraduates to clinical research. There, I not only got the chance to work closely with a surgeon principal investigator toward her goal of increasing access to care in the region, but also to master regulatory and compliance affairs to ensure we are conducting clinical research ethically. This has translated into my current regulatory clinical research work at UCSF with the Pediatric Oncology department in the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. I hope to use this regulatory acumen in a future career in healthcare-adjacent law.