"I was a global health intern with a maternal healthcare organization in Kosovo. I spent 2 months living in their major city, Pristina. My project was focused on trying to find out what roadblocks were preventing the expansion of a cervical cancer screening program in the country, which the NGO I worked with helped establish. With the help of a translator, I reached out to health directors, nurses, gynecologists' and pathologists in 4 Kosovo municipalities. I travelled with my translator around Kosovo conducting interviews to see how we could help expand the program by understanding the barriers to healthcare staff. We discovered cultural, technological and policy barriers that I synthesized into a policy brief for the NGO (which is still in the works). As part of my work, I also got to meet with UNFPA representatives for sexual health in Kosovo and Peace Corps members."

"We were able to discover many extremely significant biases in ChatGPT to (hopefully) publish on in the next few months, but more than anything it was awesome to be involved in relevant, interesting research and see the process of going from a question to a paper."

"I wish someone told me to look into applying to (summer) programs earlier. This was my first summer doing an internship because the previous summer I did not start looking into programs until the spring, and by then all the application deadlines had passed."

"It was an incredibly enlightening experience for me, in terms of my career, as it confirmed biological research, especially cancer research as a path that I am interested in pursuing further. I have taken cancer biology as my next fall class. Choosing this career will help me to directly improve the lives of many people who are suffering from deadly diseases such as cancer, which is a noble pursuit in my eyes."