Emily Avis

GHEI Medical Student Fellow

Emily also first became involved with GHEI in 2014 when she spent the summer evaluating the effectiveness of GHEI’s Neonatal Resuscitation Training Program and developing methods to improve overall efficiency and outreach.  Currently, Emily is involved in training medical students traveling to Ghana with GHEI, evaluating and presenting GHEI’s data, and developing new programs.

Emily is entering her final year of medical school at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and will be pursuing a career in Pediatrics. She attended Williams College and received a bachelor's degree in Art History.