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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Rishty Tabassum’s summer 2025 experience in Bangladesh
This summer, I returned to the very place that first inspired me to become a physician—Bangladesh. I can recall the mix of excitement and nerves as the plane left JFK. After 11 years, I was finally going back—this time as someone who had just completed her first year of medical school. For the month of
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Cleo Davidowitz and Piyusha Kundu’s summer 2025 experience in Guatemala
Hola! We’re Piyusha and Cleo – second-year medical students at Tufts who spent 6 weeks in Guatemala during our M1 summer. Under the mentorship of Dr. Yakhkind, a neurointensivist at Tufts, we pursued an independent research project in the town of Santiago, on the shores of Lake Atitlán. Santiago Atitlán has a rich Mayan history–in
In Memoriam to Dr. Mkaya Mwamburi, Founding Director of the Tufts Center for Global Public Health
Dr. Mkaya Mwamburi, Founding Director of the Tufts Center for Global Public Health. It is difficult to put into words the tremendous loss and sadness felt by our Tufts community when we heard the news about the sudden and tragic loss of our friend and colleague, Dr. David Mkaya Mwamburi on March 1, 2021. Mkaya