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Audrika ChattarajNew Jersey, USAClass of 2025
- Please list your major(s), minor, and/or concentration.
- Human Health
- Why did you choose your major/minor offered from the Human Health department?
- Interdisciplinarity has always been important to me, and I wanted to pick a program that could help me understand my experience with health through a variety of lenses. With its descriptive, translation, and mechanistic requirements, Human Health has allowed me to see how my health and the health of others is a complex interaction between biology, society, the environment, and policy that spans throughout one’s whole life. This major has equipped me to understand the body and its interactions with the world while inspiring me to improve health outcomes for the communities around me through collaborative interventions.
- If applicable, when you complete your major/minor from the Human Health program, what's next for you after graduation?
- I will be working at Sagely Health, a group that connects cancer patients to clinical trials!
- What advice do you have for someone considering a major/minor in Human Health at Emory?
- There is so much flexibility to tailor this major to your interests, but I still recommend taking a class that may be outside of your normal health explorations.
- What part of the Emory experience do you enjoy the most?
- At Emory, I really got to explore my interest in sleep from multiple lenses. As an undergraduate researcher, I have been able to create knowledge about the longitudinal symptoms of Idiopathic Hypersomnia (IH), a chronic sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness with no known pathology or diagnostic criteria. Working with a patient registry of symptoms, I have been privileged to analyze patients’ experiences with this poorly-understood disorder and have become involved in advocacy to raise awareness about this condition. To teach others about this experience in different environments, I developed a 1-credit course for 10 undergraduates that held weekly discussions about sleep environments and hosted guest lecturers who are experts in sleep health.
