Amy Nwaobasi

Uconn School of Medicine, Class of 2020

I was born and raised in Boston, MA and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I have a B.S. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and an M.S. degree in Applied Molecular Biotechnology.

The summer of my sophomore year in college, I worked at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health as a student intern. I went to various after-school programs implemented and funded by the Child and Youth Violence Prevention Unit where I interacted with and mentored the youth of populations facing poverty and violence. To give back to these communities, another intern and I held book drives where we received hundreds of books, which we donated to these after-school programs in hopes of improving literacy and interactive learning amongst the youth. We also created a state blog titled Empowering Our Youth to showcase the positive outcomes that these programs had on youth development in underserved communities.

Lived in an underserved community and working with inner city youths, fuelled my strong desire to help people who are less privileged. The opportunity to participate in the Urban Service Track program will be an important step toward a career as a physician with the goal of reducing health disparities. Since my target population is the urban underserved community, I believe this program will strengthen my knowledge of health issues affecting underserved communities and will provide me with the proper education and training to deliver care to those communities.