Jennifer Bass grew up in Michigan where her passion for public health was sparked at a young age by her mother’s work as a school nurse in Detroit. She went on to study Human Biology at Stanford University with a concentration in global health and infectious diseases.  She decided to pursue medical training to gain both the clinical skills to serve individuals and a vantage point for shaping equitable and effective health systems. While at the University of Michigan Medical School, her experiences in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Chinle, AZ served to strengthen her passion for delivering care in resource-limited settings. She also got to fulfill her dream of working at the CDC where she focused on rabies control in Kenya and monkeypox surveillance in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She went on to complete training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University where she became increasingly interested in global health education. She has been admiring the values and aims of the HEAL initiative since its creation and is thrilled to get to join the HEAL community as a fellow at Last Mile Health in Liberia and Gallup Indian Medical Center in New Mexico.