Emily recently graduated with a BS in Public Health and a minor in Environmental Science from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah and started working with UT-ADDM/URADD soon after as a Research Assistant and Data Abstractor. Primary interests of Emily’s college career were chronic and infectious diseases along with Epidemiology. She traveled frequently during college with Youthlinc to do health and service trips in Thailand, Peru, and Madagascar. Her freshman year of college she did a study abroad to Florence, Italy for 5 months where she briefly volunteered with UNICEF and her junior year of college she traveled to Thailand for a month with Westminster College to study the HIV/AIDS population there. Her capstone in college was a study with the Utah Birth Defect Network (UBDN) that focused on Critical Congenital Heart Defects (CCHD’s) within the state of Utah. She is planning on going to graduate school within the next few years to get an MPH and would eventually like to do work involving climate change and infectious diseases.