About the award

This prize is awarded to the medical student who has shown the greatest promise as a potential leader in the field of international health. Dr. Senft was a leader in organizing the basic sciences for the M.D. degree, years before Brown Medical School was fully organized or operational.  A generation of Brown medical students learned parasitology in the classes supervised by Dr. Senft.

About Sarah

Sarah is pursuing a career at the intersection of health equity and global surgery.  She spent the past year working with Partners in Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima in Rwanda as a dual Fogarty Global Health Training Fellow and research fellow with the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change.  As an undergraduate at Duke University, she developed an interest in health equity through public health research in Peru and Costa Rica. 

Sarah went on to work for Partners in Health/Compañeros en Salud in Chiapas, Mexico, where she became interested in global surgery systems strengthening.  She now serves as a Research Team co-lead for the Global Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Initiative.  Sarah’s interests include surgical system capacity building, research equity, and gender disparities in global health. She will be starting residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General this summer.