Leyla

At Brown, Leyla double concentrated in Classics and Health & Human Biology while pursuing the pre-medical track. She has been teaching and tutoring since her first year of high school and continued throughout college, working with Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring Enrichment and teaching at the Wheeler School in Providence. She has worked in clinical research labs studying the predictors of adolescent obesity and pediatric asthma self-management intervention. Leyla also worked with Health and Education for All (HAEFA), a non-profit organization that provides free cervical cancer screenings, maternal care, on-site health treatment, and health education to refugees in Bangladesh. Leyla engaged in several advocacy groups at Brown, such as Circle of Women, which funds projects in developing countries to support girls’ education, and Women’s Health Advocacy Group, which advocates for and educates individuals on the health and wellbeing of women in Providence and beyond. After graduating, Leyla worked with Saving Mothers, which helps eradicate preventable maternal deaths and birth-related complications in NYC and globally, while also completing research on transgender surgery at Mount Sinai. After that, Leyla worked in healthcare consulting, participating in market research on new rare disease and oncology therapies. Currently, Leyla is a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In her free time, she loves to read, go for walks, play volleyball, and coach.

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