Rachael Bedard

Rachael is a first year medical student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is interested in issues relating to disparities in health care and health literacy. Rachael recently received a 2007 Mayor’s Office Health Literacy Fellowship, and will spend her first medical school summer working with adult education programs to develop a health literacy component for their classrooms.

Rachael graduated from Brown University in 2005 with a degree in History. Her coursework at Brown focused primarily on the American Civil Rights Movement.