Braiya Nolan is a senior in Trumbull College majoring in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, concentrating in biotechonology. She is also in the Yale School of Public Health BS-MPH dual degree program studying epidemiology of microbial diseases She is from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and is passionate about epidemiology, immunology, and virology. Braiya currently works in the Vogels Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, studying dengue virus evolution and the usage of Wolbachia to reduce virus transmission. Before her time at the Vogels Lab, she worked for the Grubaugh Lab at the Yale School of Public Health studying virus emergence, transmission, and evolution. This past summer, Braiya worked with Dr. Amy Bei of Yale School of Public Health and Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Dakar and Kedougou, Senegal. There, she worked with an interdisciplinary team of Senegalese and American scientists working to develop a novel malaria vaccine. 

Outside of the lab, she journals, enjoys the outdoors, and socializes with friends. Additionally, she is a part of the Yale alpine ski team and president and founder of the Women Who Weightlift (WWW). Braiya is eager to continue to grow in the intersection of biology, global health, and virology through the Global Health Scholars program.