Connie Chen This is Me

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1. 1. www.pdsoros.org

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   Published on: 4/1/2008   Last Visited: 5/31/2008

   Connie Chen
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   Connie ChenCONNIE CHEN is a senior at Harvard University and has applied to begin medical school in the fall of 2008.Throughout college, she has sought to bring about institutional changes on issues relating to her great passion: reducing inequities in global health.As a leader with the international student advocacy group "Universities Allied for Essential Medicines," Connie helped to spearhead the "Philadelphia Consensus Statement on Access to Health-Related Innovations," which has been signed by a number of luminaries including several Nobel laureates and international policy makers ranging from Jeffrey Sachs to Paul Farmer.The document has greatly helped to raise the profile of the global health implications of university licensing.Connie's concern for addressing inequalities in health outcomes has also been reflected in her service as Vice President for Advocacy of the Harvard AIDS Coalition, her tenure as the senior international editor of the Harvard Health Policy Review and through her internships with the Chilean Ministry of Health and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative's Cambodia office.For her senior economics thesis, Connie traveled to Kenya to conduct field research on female sex work.Connie has also committed herself to service in the local Boston community, co-leading a prisoner education program and helping to establish a Harvard tutoring program for female offenders transitioning back into their communities.As co-programming chair of the Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard, she oversaw the day-to-day running of 73 service and advocacy programs.Connie was born 21 years ago in Chicago, to parents who came to this country from Taipei.

2. 2. www.pbha.org

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   Published on: 1/26/2008   Last Visited: 1/26/2008

   Programming Chairs: Connie Chen & Sabrina Forte

3. 3. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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   Published on: 4/1/2008   Last Visited: 5/31/2008

   Connie Chen
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   Connie ChenCONNIE CHEN is a senior at Harvard University and has applied to begin medical school in the fall of 2008.Throughout college, she has sought to bring about institutional changes on issues relating to her great passion: reducing inequities in global health.As a leader with the international student advocacy group "Universities Allied for Essential Medicines," Connie helped to spearhead the "Philadelphia Consensus Statement on Access to Health-Related Innovations," which has been signed by a number of luminaries including several Nobel laureates and international policy makers ranging from Jeffrey Sachs to Paul Farmer.The document has greatly helped to raise the profile of the global health implications of university licensing.Connie's concern for addressing inequalities in health outcomes has also been reflected in her service as Vice President for Advocacy of the Harvard AIDS Coalition, her tenure as the senior international editor of the Harvard Health Policy Review and through her internships with the Chilean Ministry of Health and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative's Cambodia office.For her senior economics thesis, Connie traveled to Kenya to conduct field research on female sex work.Connie has also committed herself to service in the local Boston community, co-leading a prisoner education program and helping to establish a Harvard tutoring program for female offenders transitioning back into their communities.As co-programming chair of the Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard, she oversaw the day-to-day running of 73 service and advocacy programs.Connie was born 21 years ago in Chicago, to parents who came to this country from Taipei.