Ryan Christ

Ryan Christ is a Harvard undergraduate from a small American town near the Atlantic coast. He is working towards a Bachelors degree in Applied Mathematics and currently studying the genetics of Alzheimer's disease in the Feany Lab at Harvard Medical School. Several related interests have drawn him to APHFTA's quality improvement internship: the impact of culture on the treatment of mental disorders and dementia in Tanzania, modeling the spread of infectious disease, and understanding the impact of clinic quality on population health.

Akanksha Sharma

Akanksha Sharma is a sophomore at Harvard. She was born in Mumbai, but grew up in Dubai, Bahrain, and the United States. She currently calls Copenhagen, Denmark home. She plans to go to medical school, but she wants to study a variety of things, especially the History of Science and Sociology. She was drawn to this opportunity with APHFTA because it allows a unique perspective into health care and Tanzanian culture.

Justin Mathew

Justin Mathew is a sophomore at Harvard College. He hails from West Nyack, New York and is pursuing a degree in Neurobiology. He has long been interested in global health care, particularly comparative studies between the healthy and infirm in Tanzania, and is excited to be working with APHFTA in Tanzania.

Susan Overall

Susan Overall is a sophomore at Harvard College. She grew up on the beach in Sydney, Australia. She is currently planning to study Economics with a secondary in Global Health Policy. Her interest in African heath care first started with her involvement with the One Girl organization with her focus on female sanitary health issues.

Devi Lockwood

Devi K Lockwood is a junior Folklore & Mythology concentrator at Harvard. While in Tanzania she helped document the stories of private health care workers with the Voices4Change team and did her best to compress the beauty of the experience into a book-length work of poetry. The best part of the summer? Learning the art of bartering for bananas in Swahili and befriending/joining a group of Tanzanians in Dar who play beach soccer every night at sunset.

Homan Mohammadi

Homan Mohammadi is a junior at Harvard College pursuing a degree in neurobiology. He was born in Ottawa, Canada, but lived in Iran for 11 years before returning back to Canada, where his family resides at the moment. He is fascinated by healthcare and its capacity to improve people's lives, particularly in a developing economic context. He was attracted towards Bienmoyo's internship opportunity in Tanzania because of his interest in global health and desire to learn more about Tanzanian culture and people.

Sydney Green

Sydney applied for the program in Tanzania in order to learn about the inner-workings of an international NGO/non-profit in the health sector. An aspiring physician, Sydney hopes to work in low-income communities domestically and/or abroad. The opportunity to work with Bienmoyo and APHFTA turned out to be much more fulfilling than she could have imagined. Sydney is grateful for the insight this experience provided regarding the burgeoning private health sector in Tanzania, including lessons that she hopes to apply in her future work.