PROJECT: Create an obesity and weight management program for adults who obtain health care at Los Angeles County safety net hospitals.

Gwendolyn Lee is passionate about improving health equity and working at the intersection of healthcare, business, and government. She has worked in state government at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, where she researched pharmaceutical pricing policies and at the Massachusetts eHealth Institute, where she developed a government grant program for digital health startups. Lee further advanced digital health and health technology in the private sector, serving as a scholar at Flare Capital Partners and a fellow at Innospark Ventures, where she identified innovative health technology to improve access to and quality of health care.

Lee holds an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School (2020) and a BA from the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs (2016). She is currently earning an MD from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (2022). Lee is looking forward to internal medicine residency at UCSF in their UCPC (primary care) program after graduation and providing holistic healthcare to her patients, with a focus on preventive and lifestyle medicine.