Displaced Children: "Adverse Childhood Experiences Amongst Refugees from the Horn of Africa: Influences on Development, Attachment, and Risk/Resilience"
by Segen Zeray


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"Rooted in Resolve:
Hope and Leadership amid
Global Health Challenges"
Wednesday, May 14th, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Great Hall
UC San Diego’s Annual Horizons of Global Health Research Symposium is a unique opportunity for Global Health students to present their research about the diversity of global health work around the world.
Faculty and students from across campus are invited to participate and contribute to building the UC San Diego Global Health community. The conference features an undergraduate research poster session and a keynote speaker.
Keynote Speaker: Carrie Hessler-Radelet, President & CEO

Carrie Hessler-Radelet is the President & CEO of Global Communities, an international non-profit
organization dedicated to bringing together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives, advance
equity and secure strong futures.
Prior to Global Communities, Carrie served as the President & CEO of Project Concern International (PCI), which merged into Global Communities on April 6, 2020. Prior to that, Carrie served as the Acting and then Confirmed Director of the Peace Corps (2012-2017) and Deputy Director (2012-2015), leading
America’s iconic international volunteer service organization with programs in over 65 countries. At Peace Corps she and her team led historic reforms to modernize and strengthen the agency to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
Before being appointed to the Peace Corps by President Obama, Carrie worked as the Vice President and Director of the Washington D.C. office of John Snow, Inc. (JSI), overseeing the management of public health programs in 85 countries around the world. Her decades of global health work also included serving as the lead consultant on the first Five-Year Global HIV/AIDS Strategy for the President George W. Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), working with USAID in Indonesia on maternal and child health and HIV programming, founding the Special Olympics in The Gambia, and serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer with her husband in Western Samoa.
Carrie is passionate about empowering communities to discover their own sustainable, innovative
solutions to ensuring positive health and wellbeing and reducing poverty. She holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science andEconomics from Boston University.
Congrats, 2025 Honors Thesis Cohort!
Hannah Acob
Jeffrey Chapman
Andrew Frank
Khushi Kumra
Xuan Ly
Nicolas Navarro
Julie Nguyen
Priya Roy
Lauren Schiele
Samantha Scroggie
Suhana Singh
Simran Subramaniam
Angelique Tran
Angelina Zhou
Congrats, MA Global Health Students!
Amoha Bhale
Leana Cortez
Samantha Davis
Brian Gorman
Kristin Lips
Ashleyn Malik
Chiemena Nnorom
Gayne Ortega
Dania Taki
Ashley Valencia
Congrats, Selected Outside Submitters!
Marianne Aquino
Lauren Bohall and Ghali Lahlou
Lucia Cichowski Rejzek and Kendra Sanchez
Nyle Connolly
Nyle Connolly, Esther Na, & Rocio Silenciario
Skyler Fesagaiga
Dian Murphy
Lisa Neumeister
Caleb Serang
Lauren Wightman
2025 Horizons Thesis Posters & Abstracts
Check out the Project Abstracts and Posters from this year's Honors Cohort, and various other submitters.
You can also access the Abstracts from this Google Doc link.