Interests: History of Public Health • Vaccination Policy • American Foreign Policy • Public Health Ethics • Health Law & Policy • National Security  Sara Jane Samuel developed an interest in the history, politics, and ethics of public health as an undergraduate at...

Prior to Columbia, Valentina studied anthropology and immunobiology at Brown University where she received her BA and MS degrees. While at Brown University, she worked in the Rhode Island Hospital Surgical Research Department for several years studying the immune...