Biography
Jupneet Singh is a senior from Somis, California. She is majoring in Chemistry (with a flex in biomedical engineering) and minoring in History. She will be attending medical school immediately after and then complete residency as an active-duty Air Force Captain. After serving as a trauma surgeon in the Air Force, she hopes to enter the United States Public Health Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and advocate for the representation of minorities and culturally adaptive practices in healthcare. She currently holds leadership positions in Air Force ROTC, MIT Mock Trial, and Project Sunshine MIT, and is also involved with the PKG Public Service Center. She is working in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program in the Shalek Lab studying fatty liver disease, and she also worked in the Nolan Lab on natural products research.
This past summer, she worked in de-addiction centers in India and her abstract was accepted to The American College of Surgeons Southern California Conference. She also worked at the Ventura County Family Justice Center and Ventura County Medical Center Trauma Center and published a paper as first author in The American Surgeon. She received four fellowships for $8400 for the program she founded, Pathways to Promise, to support the health of children affected by domestic violence.