Zandy Wong

Biography

Alexandra “Zandy” Wong is a first-year medical student at the University of California: San Francisco Medical School. Before starting medical school, she completed two masters’ degrees in Digital Health and Women’s and Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She received her undergraduate degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2024. Her research focuses on contextualizing barriers to healthcare systems for patients with disabilities and she contributed to mixed methods research focused on evaluating the user experience for patients with disabilities when interfacing with U.S. hospital websites, patient health education materials, and hearing aids with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Oxford. Her advocacy has been rooted in direct community service and policy influencing. Zandy founded the NextGen Accessibility Initiative, helping over 200,000 youth gain access to accessible digital education through workshops and one-on-one digital accessibility consultations. She previously advised the U.S. Department of Labor, UNESCO, and UNICEF on creating inclusive education and workforce programs for youth with disabilities. She has also spoken at the United Nations and the United Kingdom Parliament on international development policy for youth with disabilities and engaging youth with disabilities in policymaking. She has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree (2026) and a Global Student Prize Finalist (2023) and her work has been featured in news coverage from the Guardian, the Washington Post, and Teen Vogue.