Pre-Collegiate

By Mantej Singh, BASIS Ahwatukee, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Recent headlines have championed the success of much of the developed world in...

By Karmen Gill, The Madeira School, McLean, Virginia, USA A woman comes into the emergency room with chest pain and a heart rate of 220...

By Joshua Payne, Glenforest Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Figure 1. Nigerian hospitals look very different from Canadian...

By Sonnet Xu, Troy High School, Troy, Michigan, USA In the United States, black patients are historically known to suffer more...

By Alice Zou, Bayview Secondary School, Ontario, Richmond Hill, Canada From a young age, girls learn to hide menstrual products from...

By Juliet Fang, University High School, Fresno, California, USA An old adage states that an individual’s life expectancy is dependent on...

By Vamsi Nandamuri, Downingtown STEM Academy, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA As 4.6 million people annually add onto the world’s 51.7...

By Noelle Kuhn, Radnor High School, Radnor, Pennsylvania, USA More than any other medical advancement, vaccines have arguably been the...

By Dev Ahuja, Solon High School, Solon, Ohio, USA Around the world, America is renowned for the quality of its healthcare system. In...

By Abby Bojalad, Sewickley Academy, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, USA From the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to Medicare and Medicaid access,...

By Shalen Murphy, Saline High School, Saline, Michigan, USA In 2014, Flint, Michigan made national headlines when researchers discovered...

By Violet Berlin, Jones College Prep, Chicago, Illinois, USA Distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to poorer nations around the world is...

By Juliet Fang, University High School, Fresno, CA, USA In 2019, five million children in the United States did not know if they would...

By Janaki Nair, Solon High School, Solon, Ohio, USA “I can’t breathe.” These are the three words that reverberated in epic proportions...

By Akshara Ramasamy, The Woodlands College Park High School, The Woodlands, TX From medication to cell phones to apparel, almost...

By Emma Rifat, The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, MD The inequity of global wealth disparity, an impediment in the efforts towards...

By Yara Changyit-Levin, John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO It is stomach-churning to watch influential political figures, including the...