Summary
Anjali Gupta (T’22) completed a self-designed degree titled, The Interplay Between Health and Educational Outcomes (B.S.). A Robertson Scholar, she was President of Duke Partnership for Service (dPS) and Adopt-A-Grandparent (AAG) and volunteered with the Durham Crisis Response Center. Anjali also conducted health disparities research in the Department of Population Health Sciences, interned with the Freedom School program in rural NC, and worked on family-school engagement initiatives at the Brookings Center for Universal Education.
Anjali Gupta will spend the Hart Fellowship in Banjul, The Gambia, where she will partner with the University of The Gambia School of Medicine, and Cancer Confrontation, Care, and Consolation (C3G), a free community-based cervical cancer screening initiative. Through qualitative and quantitative research, Anjali will explore how various dimensions of healthcare access affect screening and treatment. These insights may guide initiatives to get patients diagnosed at earlier stages and linked to care.