Lily Zhang is an undergraduate in the Class of 2017 studying Statistics and Global Health and Health Policy. She is passionate about addressing issues of poverty, social inequities, and human rights through innovation and technology. Freshman year, she co-organized Mob Malaria, a social media-driven campaign to raise awareness of malaria, culminating in a flash mob that took place in the US, China, and Zimbabwe on World Malaria Day 2014. During her summers, she has conducted social network research of online health communities as a research fellow for the Harvard Global Health Institute; interned at the United Nations Office for Malaria and for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals, made possible through the gracious support of the Joey Hanzich Memorial Fellowship; and most recently, this summer will be working as a data science intern at Premise Data, a technology start up that uses crowdsourcing and machine learning to revolutionize data collection in developing countries
