Alessi Ayvaz, Graduate Student Researcher

Alessi Ayvaz is a Master of Public Health graduate student at UC Berkeley, with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics. She did her undergraduate in Public Health and Spanish, and is interested in clinical trial and regulatory science. She has worked as a writing tutor for UC Berkeley’s Student Learning Center, a youth representative to Congressman Harley Rouda of the 48th Congressional District, and in various positions for the Daily Californian’s night editing department. She has also fully designed and taught a summer course for high school students, volunteered as a Crisis Counselor for Crisis Text Line, and was a summer intern at Genentech, working on a phase 3 trial in lupus nephritis. She is passionate about health equity and information accessibility along with the interplay between public policy decisions and public health outcomes.