Education

Maya discovered the MS in Health Informatics program while in Austria, where she taught English at a secondary school for two years. While there, she volunteered to tutor Syrian refugees in English, and at welcome centers to help Ukrainian refugees who fled the country when the war began. The experiences were jarring but propelled her to want to do more for others on a global scale.    

As a certified EMT, Amaar Asif works twelve-hour shifts transporting patients to and from the hospital. He’s noticed, however, that a ten-minute ride can cost $2000. As a prospective emergency room physician and student in the MS in Health Policy and Economics program at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), Amaar plans to advocate for change that prevents costs like those.  

Aman Patel grew up with plans to become a doctor, like his dad. Now, as a biostatistician at Mount Sinai, his title may not be what he initially expected, but he’s achieved a newfound balance between his varied interests through the biostatistics and data science track of the MS in Healthcare Policy and Research program at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), now known as the MS in Biostatistics and Data Science program.

Born in Italy and raised in California, Stefan Masselink has had a global view from a young age. A medical mission trip in high school highlighted medicine’s fundamentally altruistic nature. Now, Stefan is enrolled in the health policy and economics track of the MS in Healthcare Policy and Research program at WCM. He hopes to better understand healthcare as a driver of research and innovation, a stage for political reform, and one of the country’s largest industries.