Alumni

Ravi Gupta, MD

Ravi Gupta, MD, is an internist and a National Clinician Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on how health policy and systems can better serve vulnerable populations by eliminating health disparities and improving access to affordable medicines. He studied molecular genetics, political science, and economics at The Ohio State University. He worked in India for two years as a Research Associate for the MIT Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He completed his medical training at the Yale School of Medicine and his residency in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Osler Medical Training Program within the Urban Health track. Dr. Gupta's work with the Initiative focuses on the role of medical journals in facilitating targeted tracking of physicians by pharmaceutical marketers

Karim Farhat

Karim Farhat is majoring in Economics while also following a Pre-Med track at Cornell University. After living in Lebanon for over a decade, he has developed a sincere interest in providing health care access to oppressed and impoverished communities. He is particularly interested in the issues of universal health care, and how it could contribute to ending the “deaths of despair” epidemic. After graduation, he hopes to attend medical school and pursue a career as a community-oriented physician advocating for a more holistic approach to health care. As a 2021 SUMR Scholar, Karim looked at how health information was being collected when accessing health-related websites. The expansion of online medicine has created a minefield of privacy issues that have yet to be confronted, and he is grateful to have been part of a team dedicated to developing solutions. 

Timothy Libert, Ph.D.

Dr. Libert is a computer scientist who has conducted numerous large-scale studies on web tracking and is a publicly recognized expert in online health privacy. He was a co-founder of the Initiative. Dr. Libert is regularly consulted by regulators, works on health privacy class-action litigation, and has written several op-eds in major media outlets. His work has received widespread press coverage and he held a graduate fellowship at the New America Foundation

Amey Maley

Amey Maley is a rising senior at Rice University majoring in Statistics and minoring in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities. He is interested in pursuing a career in health care within the realm of clinical practice as well as impacting health care systems more broadly. Having gained wide exposure to rural and urban health care settings ranging from Texas to his home state of Illinois, Maley is interested in improving the design and implementation of best practices within medical environments to more effectively cater to underserved patient populations. Moreover, he is interested in leveraging his background in statistics to employ data-driven methods to better assess and address these care gaps. As a 2021 SUMR Scholar, Amey helped to develop a database to consolidate and examine data tracking from institutions that provide health information, with particular attention towards the role minority status and demographic background plays in institutional data collection.

Evan Miller

Evan Miller (YLS 2023) is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. His interests include health technology regulation, health artificial intelligence, and health data privacy. Prior to law school, his background is in medical ethics and health policy, and he was involved in the early stages of the Penn-CMU Digital Health Privacy Initiative. This summer, he is interning at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he assists the in-house regulatory team in advising on regulatory issues deriving from the ACA, GDPR and the 21st Century Cures Act. Evan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine with a Master of Bioethics degree and from Georgetown University with a degree in Neurobiology. As a Masters in Bioethics student, Evan played a central role in the data collection and analysis of access denial for journal users who opt out of cookie-based tracking.

Kristen Smith

Kristen Smith obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Health and Societies with a concentration in Public Health, and minoring in Neuroscience and Health Care Management. After graduating from Penn next year, she hopes to pursue an MPH in Health Policy and Management. Her main areas of interest include the history of American health policy and reform, bioethics, global health, and racial and socioeconomic disparities in access to care. As a 2021 SUMR Scholar, Kristen helped construct a database to identify those key stakeholders that provide health information in order to analyze and assess the demographic information it yields. She also came to better understand how the broadening influence of big data may perpetuate stigmas already engrained within minority and low-income communities.