Annie Abbate

UConn School of Medicine, Class of 2020

I was born and raised in East Hampton, CT. I earned my BS in Biology from Elmira College and my MPH in Global Infectious Diseases from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.

In the months before matriculating at UConn, I interned for several months at HIPS, a harm reduction facility in Washington DC. At HIPS, I conducted syringe exchanges and distributed safe sex supplies for HIPS client population, which is predominantly composed of HIV-positive transgender sex workers and injection drug users. I have also gone on humanitarian missions in Pakistan, Haiti, the Philippines, and, most recently, I was deployed with the Ebola Response in Sierra Leone for five months. Prior to that, I was an epidemiology graduate research assistant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for two years while I completed my MPH at Emory University.

I applied to UST because I am committed to social justice in medicine and to providing high quality healthcare to underserved populations in my home state of Connecticut.