Class of 2026
Learn more about the students who graduate this year.
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Ben Wallace
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Global Health May 13, 2026
Meet Chimba Sanga: Zambian physician, public health leader, LinkedIn influencer
Chimba Sanga, MPH ’26, is using his new training in epidemiology to improve HIV and TB care at home in Zambia.
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Food, Nutrition, Diet April 22, 2026
Why are other kids starving?
Witnessing poverty as a child sparked Luiza Lima Vieira’s quest to vanquish hunger—but first, she had to learn to listen to her own body.
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Environment & Climate Health April 16, 2026
Meet Mia Sanchez: Climate researcher, first-gen student, marathoner
Mia Sanchez, SM ’26, wants to create sustainable solutions for climate change and inspire new generations of scientists. But first, she’s running the Boston Marathon—with her grandfather.
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Global Health April 7, 2026
Pediatric ICU nurse brings clinical insight to global health policy analysis
Heesu Shin, SM ’26, took care of kids while working at a hospital in South Korea. Now he’s helping them on a larger scale through his research.
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Health Data Science March 31, 2026
Using advanced statistics and AI to improve health
Matlin Gilman, PhD ’26, studies the real-world health effects of policy decisions and builds artificial intelligence tools to advance health care.
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Health Policy March 25, 2026
Providing quality, access to health care in rural Indonesia
Leni Siagian, MPH ’26, wants to ensure care for those who face challenges getting it.
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March 19, 2026
By studying muscle function, student aims to improve others’ physical health—and maybe his own
Sam Lapp, PhD ’26, delves deep into the biology of how muscles work.
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Environment & Climate Health January 22, 2026
MPH student takes an interdisciplinary approach to climate-related health inequities
Sanchita Gera, an MPH student in quantitative methods, wants to address social and environmental determinants of health, with a focus on climate change.
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Mental Health January 7, 2026
Improving health care for neurodivergent individuals
Mojdeh Mostafavi, MPH ’26, has seen firsthand the ways the health system is not geared toward helping people like her brother with autism. She aims to change that.
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October 22, 2025
Computational biology student aims to bring tech skills to the health care arena
Isabella Pabón, SM ’26, once thought she’d be a writer. Now she’s on track to earn a master of science in computational biology and quantitative genetics from Harvard Chan School.
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