Ayush Iyer (BR ‘26) is studying molecular biophysics and biochemistry, with a medicine concentration, and economics. He is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is passionate about the intersection between scientific discovery, behavioral economics, and global healthcare outcomes. He currently researches serologic diagnostics for hookworm, roundworm, and other pediatric infectious and neglected tropical diseases with the Cappello Lab at Yale School of Medicine. He spent this summer doing field research in rural northern Ghana with the Cappello Lab’s collaborating team at the Noguchi Memorial Research Institute. He also serves as senior policy analyst at the Yale Policy Institute and led a research project on hospital consolidation and rising healthcare costs in Connecticut in collaboration with the CT Health Policy Project last year. Outside of academic work, Ayush volunteers as the founding director of the vaccine department at HAVEN Free Clinic, a program that he helped springboard at HAVEN last summer. Ayush is passionate about music and sings as a tenor with the Yale Glee Club and plays the tabla as president of Yale Dhvani, an Indian classical music group on campus. In his free time, Ayush loves to mountain bike, backpack, travel, learn new recipes, and write songs on the guitar.