UIC Alumna awarded Fulbright
Award recipients are selected by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board based on leadership potential, academic and professional achievement and public service.
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Emily Shi, Honors College alumna, is in her third year of medical school at UIC, studying in Peoria, after graduating from UIC in 2021 with a degree in chemistry. Under the Fulbright program, she received the National Taiwan University Master’s Degree Program Award in Global Health, a two-year commitment she will begin in September.
She will focus on Taiwanese women’s perception of menstrual pain and how those perceptions affect the diagnosis of endometriosis.
As an undergraduate at UIC, she was part of the Peer Health Exchange, a campus organization that hosted health education workshops in Chicago Public Schools. The experience taught her how research-driven interventions can help address health disparities. She continued her health advocacy work online as a UIC medical student, discovering strong ties between health outcomes and cultural contexts.
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