Elizabeth Madamidola is a junior at Cornell University majoring in Global and Public
Health Sciences and minoring in German. She first became interested in health care policy
research after reflecting on how disadvantageous the U.S. healthcare system was to her own
community, as well as learning in college about the gaps in care and outcomes of
underrepresented minorities. She is also interested in the growing intersection between
hospitality and health care and investigating how to further improve patient experience in
hospitals, especially for minority populations. Through the Summer Undergraduate
Minorities Program at the Leonard Institute of Health Economics at Wharton, Elizabeth
was funded to conduct health services research at the Palliative and Advanced Illness
Research Center (PAIR). Contact Elizabeth at eam362@cornell.edu.