MiChaela Barker is a dual MPH/MBA student at YSPH and Yale SOM. Her interest revolve around healthcare entrepreneurship, equity, and eliminating healthcare disparities. MiChaela is a Founder and Owner of Melanin In Medicine, LLC, a company that focuses on providing representative apparel for healthcare workers of color, along with professional mentoring and mental health resources.
Public Health Innovation Exchange
Public Health Innovation Exchange (PHIX) is the YSPH peer-to-peer network that supports involvement and engagement with Innovate Health Yale (IHY) and Tsai CITY entrepreneurship programs and opportunities. Membership is reserved for full-time, in-person students who are actively working on a for-profit commercial product and/or service or are willing to commit time to support another student's project in some capacity (e.g., assist with market research, competitor analysis, pitch deck creation & practice, etc.).
Members are serious about materializing their visions/pursuing solutions to pressing public health problems and should be willing to commit to weekly in-person attendance for at least the Fall 2022 semester. A 1-2 hour weekly time commitment is anticipated.
PHIX functions as an informal, organic accelerator to assist with problem identification & solutions, sustainable business model design, pitch deck creation and practice, peer-to-peer networking at YSPH and other student-led Yale entrepreneurial organizations, risk-free review of ideas, and general mentorship to strengthen one's concept and approach to implementation.
To learn more, please connect with a member of the officer board below:- Priya Basak is a Master of Public Health candidate in Health Care Management at Yale School of Public Health in conjunction with Yale School of Management. Her recent professional experience lies in research and development at biotechnology startups, where she has worked on target validation projects to create immunotherapies and safety and efficacy testing for cancer therapeutics. She is driven by a passion for supporting innovation, with a particular interest in novel cancer and autoimmune therapies. Priya is pivoting to management consulting following her graduation from Yale and is joining Deloitte Consulting in their healthcare and life sciences practice.
- Jacob's interests within public health innovation primarily lie in service delivery mechanisms and labor markets. He hopes to improve social determinants of health for both patients and the healthcare workforce by way of novel business models and human-centered integration of digital technology. Jacob is the Founder and CEO of First Mile Health and has experience in EMS and home-based care, hospital administration, and HR transformation.
Student Fellow, InnovateHealth Yale
Ingeborg is a current MPH student whose passion is looking for unconventional and innovative ways to solve the world's most persistent health problems. She has a minor in social innovation and social entrepreneurship and is working with a local all-girls school in Belize City with the hopes of finding an innovative solution to tackle dysmenorrhea. Ingeborg is eager to learn how to develop health programs, policies, projects, and campaigns that will truly impact health systems throughout the world. Ingeborg will support IHY research projects throughout the 2022-2023 academic year.- Inspired by the potential realized during his work on Accenture's healthcare.gov project, Ryan developed a passion to leverage technology for cross-disciplinary, systems-level change. Ryan's interest focuses on modern hiring practices and exploring the outcomes they produce (e.g., success disparities, wealth inequality); this has culminated in his own entrepreneurial endeavor to develop and implement a novel software solution. Ryan has founded PreHealthPivot (2019) and PHID (2022) to support his commitment to peer empowerment in public health innovation.