For Sunil Parikh global health work runs in the family. While growing up, he traveled with his parents to rural areas of India and China while his father, who was a cardiologist, tended to those communities with little access to health care. “Those trips had a big impact on forming my outlook of the world and my career,” says Parikh. “I was both impressed and saddened by what I saw at such a young age.”

Read more about Sunil and his decision to study global health here.