HMS & HSDM Student Council

Meet Debby Cheng, our Student Council Member of the Week! 🥳 She is a member of Cannon Society and our Public Relations Chair. Debby graduated from Princeton and spent a gap year at a nonprofit organization that provides legal services to immigrants in New Jersey. In her free time, she loves dancing and cooking with friends!

This week, HMS SAMDA (South Asian Medical and Dental Association) is beginning an educational and fundraising campaign to aid Sri Lanka, starting with a Zoom webinar on August 13th, at 11 AM. See below for more information.

HMS SAMDA is collaborating with the Harvard College, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School’s South Asian student associations to present “Spotlight on Sri Lanka’s Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis: Challenges & Adaptive Solutions,” an educational campaign and fundraiser. On August 13th at 11:00 am EST we will be hosting a Zoom webinar -  Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne from Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan NGO providing food distribution support, and Dr. Thayalan Ambalavanar from Jaffna Teaching Hospital, a tertiary government hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, will be discussing their responses to this crisis. This will be kicking off a week of fundraising with all funds going directly to these community-based organizations, Sarvodaya and Jaffna Teaching Hospital, to fund food distribution, medicine, and medical supplies.  

Please sign up here for Zoom event and more information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IppzdSz2-kY4gf_pt72sy-oJRWkwxEd0UF7MPitlo0w/edit

Zoom 11am EST Aug 13th: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92138013271

Meet Marta Williams, one of our Student Council Members of the Week! 🥳🤩 Here are some words from our amazing Harvard Grad Council Representative:

“My name is Marta Williams, I'm from Woodbury, MN, and I attended Luther College for undergrad. Some of my favorite hobbies include reading, doing puzzles, and all kinds of outdoor activities - running, hiking, backpacking, biking, and more! I play flute, piccolo, piano and sing, and am enjoying getting involved in the music scene at HMS. I also love to bake and try out new recipes! I think student council has an awesome team this year, and am super excited to see what we can do to build and strengthen our HMS community, particularly amidst the continued challenges of COVID-19.”

Meet one of our Student Council Members of the Week, Eana Meng! 🎉 Here are some words from our amazing Peabody Society representative:

“I'm from Brookline, MA -- so I'm a local! I love all things food -- from how to grow it (catch me at a farm often!) to eating. Food is medicine, and nutrition is a huge part of our wellbeing and health. My grandmother was a Chinese medicine practitioner so I am passionate about learning about different ways of seeing, understanding, and treating the body. There is so much wisdom for us to learn from. In addition to medicine, I am a historian-in-training, and my research focuses on the use of acupuncture by revolutionaries in the 1970s as a means of healing communities ravaged by the drug epidemic.”

Meet one of our Student Council Members of the Week! 🥳 Michael Liu is an M1 at HMS. He is originally from Toronto, Canada - close to the filming of Schitt’s Creek! He enjoys running, cross-fitness, reality TV, and too many smoothies. Michael is excited about promoting interdisciplinary and cross-school connections between HMS and the other Harvard graduate schools.