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Aaron Baum

Aaron Baum is a second-year student in the PhD program in Sustainable Development.  His interests include low-resource health systems, integration of microfinance and health care, implementation-oriented research on community health worker subsystems, and rural markets.  Aaron is pursuing his PhD studies while on leave from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he is pursuing an MD/MSc through the National Institute of Health supported Clinical Scientist Training Program.

Aaron holds a Bachelors of Science with honors in mathematics from the University of Chicago.  He previously worked for five years as an equities trader, circumnavigated the globe on Semester at Sea, and lived in Haiti working for Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest microfinance bank.  He collaborates with the Millennium Villages Project Health Systems team at the Earth Institute and the Institute for Human and Community Development, a Haitian school for children in servitude, as well as Fonkoze.