Seeking an opportunity to do something impactful in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, Julian Zulueta applied for an internship with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, through MIT's PKG Public Service Center. During the summer of 2020, he analyzed requisition data to better understand how different regions across the United States were affected by Covid-19, and what resources would be most effective on the ground. 'We would talk with hospitals and see what they were going through on the ground level,' says Zulueta, an MIT senior majoring in bioengineering. 'What were their cities looking like' How were health care workers responding' And how could we deploy epidemiologists or contact tracers to those different regions'' The experience gave him a multifaceted perspective on public health and sparked a passion for public service leadership. While he hopes to attend medical school and contribute to immunology and cancer research as a physician-scientist, Zulueta is also...
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