Anthonia Odarkor Odartei is an MSW student at the School of Social Policy and Practice with a focus on criminal justice and medical Social Work. Her research interests center on addressing education policies, human rights and global health issues in developing countries and the marginalized communities. She currently doubles as a fellow at Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) and a Social Work intern at the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Community Education and Department of Pediatrics (Career Path Program) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). During her first year, she worked as a research assistant on the Shared Decision-Making Research Project at the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine. She also currently doubles as a research assistant at Penn Nursing on the topic "Re-Imagining Childhood Asthma and Electronic Health Records: A Community-Based Approach" exploring how medical information systems can be improved to provide better care for young, marginalized asthma patients, and at the Center for Guaranteed Income Research of SP2. She is school garden mentor at the Netter Center. She holds a BA with a major in Social Work and minor in Sociology from the University of Ghana.
