Eric Lee is a junior from New Jersey studying biochemistry and biophysics in the Vagelos Molecular Life Sciences (MLS) Program. After spending a summer in India, where he worked at Tamil Nadu's Aravind Eye Hospital, he became inspired by the principles of compassion and equity that he learned and fascinated by how health systems—and the environments that shape—them operate in different settings. Toward the life goal of replicating Aravind’s success, Eric hopes to develop scientific tools and contribute to policy measures that vitalize health care, especially in service of those pushed to the margins of societies around the world. At Penn, Eric is a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia student researcher, Shelter Health Outreach Program policy project director, Undergraduate Chemistry Society president, and Chinese Students’ Association board member. He enjoys going on long runs and playing the violin in his free time.
