Margret holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and has frequently used her music and writing to raise public awareness of issues around healthcare and social justice. These concerns have also been at the center of her work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she is currently a research fellow developing low-literacy health education materials and studying cultural, social, and environmental forces influencing the prevalence of diabetes in underserved populations.
Inspired by her experience with low-literacy populations, Margret�s current interests involve looking at how different cultures use music to deal with life�s difficulties and uncertainties. She is also the founder of the ethnomusicology project �Pulse,� which looks at folk music as a means of motivating people from all cultures to maintain healthy lifestyles.
Margret will enter Brown Medical School in the fall of 2006. She plans to become an internist and an advocate for cross-disciplinary approaches to medicine�uniting the efforts of healthcare providers, legal professionals, scholars, and artists to meet the needs of the underserved.
Health Disparities
Photo by: Anne C. Richards
Carrollton
Thomas Anderson, guitar, piano
Hanna Lisa Stefansson, piano
Atlanta
Ahmad Kabbani, flamenco guitar
Corina Lee, piano
Natalie Codelli, piano
Musicians representing the Indonesian community