Kayla Yup (PC ’25) hails from Baltimore, Maryland, and is majoring in molecular, cellular and developmental biology with certificates in journalism and global health. Her interest in global health began as an intern at the American Public Health Association, reporting on public health issues for The Nation’s Health. She is passionate about harnessing the power of both journalism and research as public services. As an undergraduate research fellow at the Women’s Health Research at Yale interdisciplinary research center, she interrogates sex/gender differences in science and medicine alongside a community of researchers and clinicians. She also serves as managing editor at the Yale Scientific Magazine, is an undergraduate researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, and a health policy research assistant at the Yale School of Public Health. You can find her mentoring for the Office of Educational Opportunity and volunteering as a medical debt/insurance counselor at HAVEN Free Clinic. Her interests include science journalism, health policy and advocacy, and the societal implications of scientific innovation. She loves pigs, believes in psychological first aid, and crochets too much clothes. She looks forward to investigating topics in global health and pondering frameworks for effective public health communication.