Mariana Sarmiento from Colombia received her B.A degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Tulane University and graduated with a M.E.M degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the Yale School of the Environment (formerly Forestry & Environmental Studies) in 2011. Sarmiento is the 2017 recipient of the Mulago Foundation’s Conservation Fellow award.
Today, we are featuring the portrait of Brianna Jackson, a PhD nursing student at the Yale School of Nursing. . “I'm a proud Canadian and have called the province of Ontario home. Even though Canada and the United States are neighbors, I often describe my experience moving to the U.S. as transitioning to an alternate reality - that is, the same, but different!
Born in the Hague, Simone Buitendijk studied medicine at Utrecht University and received a M.Ph degree at the Yale School of Medicine in 1990, where she had evaluated medications taken during early pregnancy and its relationship to maternal attributes. She received her Doctorate in Epidemiology at Leiden University and her research was on IVF pregnancies and their follow-up.
