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Global Committee Student Leadership Bios
 Tanyaporn Wansom is an MD/MPP dual degree candidate at the University of Michigan Medical School and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She graduated with High Honors from Swarthmore College with double majors in Chinese Studies and Biology and a minor in Anthropology. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the differential experiences and medical ethics of Chinese immigrants when accessing Western health care. After college, Tanyaporn spent a year in Bangkok as a Fulbright scholar engaged in HIV/AIDS counseling, clinical research, and advocacy with a focus on marginalized populations. She has been involved in community advocacy and grassroots organizing efforts among commercial sex workers, intravenous drug users, people living with HIV/AIDS, and health professional students.During the summer of 2006, she was a Duke University Global Health Fellow researching compulsory licensing in developing countries at the World Health Organization's Department of Essential Medicines in Geneva. She returned to Thailand in 2006-2007 as a NIH/Fogarty Clinical Research Scholar and contributed to projects on quality of life among HIV+ patients receiving HAART and reproductive health care for women. Within AMSA, Tanyaporn has been elected to national leadership for four years and is currently serving as both a Global Pulse editor and the AMSA-IFMSA Global Health Chair.
 Anand Bhat's family comes from Mumbai and rural Karnataka, India although he was born and raised in Beaumont, Texas. At the University of Texas at Austin, Anand majored in Human Biology concentrating in Problems of Developing Countries. Anand also completed a interdisciplinary program called the Bridging Disciplines program where he earned a certification in Population and Public Policy. As part of the program he studied the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations with Seton Hall University in 2004. At the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Anand is enrolled in the Hispanic Health Care and Global Health Tracks. For these Anand went to the Maria Ortiz Women's Cooperative Clinic in Mulukuku, Nicaragua for his summer elective. Currently he is the chair of the local AMSA Global Health Action committee, a leader in the local Pharmaceutical Awareness Group, and tutors in Spanish for ¿Qué Quiere Decir?
 Sae-Rom Chae is a rising M3 at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. After studying Sociology, Spanish, and International Studies in college, she spent a year in Malaysia on a Fulbright research fellowship investigating the sexual health, attitudes, and behavior of Malaysian youth. She also contributed to a country-wide UNDP-funded study surrounding the social impact of HIV/AIDS on those living with HIV/AIDS. Some of her other international adventures include working at an orphanage for indigenous children in northern Thailand on a J.W. Saxe Memorial Prize and providing healthcare to the Gumuz tribal people in Ethiopia. Since beginning medical school, Sae-Rom has been active within AMSA, serving as chapter Co-Vice-President, participating in the Global Health Leadership Institute and Community & Public Health Institute, and working especially to shed light on North Korean human rights and public health issues.
 Laura Frye graduated from New York University (NYU) in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in biology. As an undergraduate student, Laura volunteered for Bailey House, a non-profit AIDS housing organization, as well as LIFEbeat, a leading advocate for HIV prevention efforts directed at youth. In her interim year before medical school, Laura worked with high risk populations in Kansas, conducting outreach to injection drug users and sex workers. Upon beginning medical school at University of Kansas, Laura returned to her basic science roots and began contributing to research in the Marion Merrell Dow Laboratory of Viral Pathogenesis, researching HIV and Hepatitis C vaccines. She served as the director of social services for her school's free clinic where she organized patient assistance programs and implemented a walk-in rapid HIV testing program. Laura also coordinated medical outreach teams to Belize, providing primary care to the underserved within the country and plans to continue this work during the year. Previously, Laura served as AMSA's 2006-2007 Global AIDS Fellow, representing the organization on issues related to global health and HIV. In this role she planned advocacy and programming experiences including organizing and directing an AIDS Activism Training seminar at the 2006 International Aids Conference, rallies addressing HIV prevention, treatment, and care, an organizing tour focusing on AIDS issues in the fall elections, and numerous leadership institutes across the country.
 Jing Luo is a rising M3 at UIC College of Medicine and is enrolled in both the Urban Medicine and Service Learning Program. He is currently the Secretary of UIC's Chapter of AMSA and was UIC's HIV/AIDS Issue Chair in 2006-2007. He is a student member on the Dean's Taskforce on Global Health and the Subcommittee on Pharmaceutical Conflict-of-Interest. He was a Duke University Center for Global Health Summer Fellow in Family Health International's Malawi Country Office. He has studied the effect of migration on HIV risk in Tajikistan, family planning in China, and documented the work of community advocacy organizations in post-Katrina New Orleans.
 Laura Janneck is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, and received her ScB in Human Biology with a focus on international health from Brown University. As an undergraduate, Laura worked with homeless and immigrant communities, and did grassroots organizing with Clean Water Action. She studied substance use in Samoa and American Samoa, and spent a summer in South Africa researching voluntary HIV testing. Laura is now a third year medical student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. During medical school, she spent a summer in Guatemala studying Spanish, where she worked with villagers who had been displaced from their land by hurricane Stan, and in a pediatric medical clinic outside Quetzaltenango. She also returned to South Africa to conduct a study on urban food insecurity in Johannesburg. Within AMSA, Laura has served as a chapter president, Region Conference Coordinator, Region IV Trustee, and as a mentor for the Global Health Scholars Program. She has helped to orchestrate and implement the merger of IFMSA-USA and AMSA. With colleagues at Case, Laura is working on designing and implementing a global health curriculum at her medical school, and will be working throughout the year in her role as Education Coordinator to create a network of students like herself who are bringing global health education to their schools and communities. Starting this summer, she will be taking a year of leave from medical school to pursue an MPH in International Health at Harvard University. |
