Emile Ansari

UConn School of Medicine

I grew up in Middlebury, CT and graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Minor in Entrepreneurial Leadership.

I am passionate about volunteering and have volunteered as a Race4Chase Coach at Race4Chase, a nonprofit summer camp that teaches underprivileged kids how to swim and ride a bike to ultimately compete in a triathlon at the end of the summer. Another experience volunteering was with Loaves and Fishes, which is a nonprofit organization that provides a weekly grocery pickup service to reduce food insecurity for an underserved community.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked as a high school biology teacher in an underfunded Title I school in New Haven as a Teach For America Corps Member. I focused on educational equity and advocacy for my former students.

Additional past professional experiences include working at Yale University in the Equity Research and Innovation Center as a Postgraduate Researcher: Survey development, participant interviews, community outreach, and collection of artifacts as a health equity researcher focused on addressing social determinants of health for formerly incarcerated and multiracial patients. I also have experience as a Medical Assistant in low-income community.

My desire to be a doctor and join the Urban Service Track at UCONN stems from my hope to forge a meaningful relationship with the suffering. Hearing their stories taught me that we don’t just recover from intimate experiences of shared vulnerability; we become different people entirely. I am driven to further understand the needs of all peoples, think critically about how social systems affect their health and well-being, and what I can do about it.