Biography
Isabel E.E. Beshar, Rye, is a senior at Yale with a double major in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and in history of science and medicine. Isabel has done extensive research and fieldwork relating to her interest in chronic disease in less developed countries. She has worked as a medical volunteer or research coordinator in Panama and Ecuador, and has award-winning and published research in diabetes. She is also president of the Yale Public Health Coalition and a frequent contributor of health-related editorials to the Yale Daily News.