Global Health Institute

Bouchra Benghomari (M'28) is a medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She received her B.S. in cellular and molecular biology with a global health minor and political science concentration. She conducted her honors thesis spanning her undergraduate research on antibiotic resistance done in the Eric Rubin Lab at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on the emerging infectious disease Mycobacterium abscessus, a relative of tuberculosis, and continued this research in the Jeremy Rock Lab at Rockefeller University in New York City during her gap years. Additionally, Bouchra worked at UNICEF headquarters in New York City as a part of the HIV/AIDS Section, where she contributed to research and aided in shaping policy and programs related to mother-to-child transmission, the UNICEF Antimicrobial Resistance Framework, the launch of the Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children by 2030, and the production of the HIV Reimagined podcast. As a 2024-2025 Global Health Institute Student Fellow, she is excited to join Dr. Margaret Baker’s lab and help establish better integration of infectious disease intervention programs in vulnerable health systems.