Christina Lagos

Christina Lagos, a policy studies and psychology major from Dunedin, Fla., graduated from Rice University in 2008. She assisted Christopher Lagan in research on health care in Africa at debt, AIDS, trade, Africa (DATA) in Washington, D.C., in summer 2006. She presented the results of her research, “The Health Care Worker Shortage in the Developing World: Examining National and International Policies to Mitigate the Crisis,” at the Baker Institute in September 2006. She was recommended by Christian Emden of the Department of German at Rice University. Christina participated in the Rice SOS Children’s Village project in Lesotho in 2007, and in 2008 received a Rotary International scholarship to study in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was awarded a Reynolds fellowship to begin master’s program graduate study at the Harvard University School of Public Health in 2008. She graduated in 2010 and began work in Boston as a consultant for the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit that specializes in helping other nonprofits and philanthropists in building organizations to implement social change.