A second-year medical student and Camille-Lange Rathbun scholar at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Prior to matriculating at Feinberg, Elana studied Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received the Naomi R. and Freeman A. Koehler Scholarship and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Research Scholarship for her human gastrointestinal microbiota research. Elana is working on the Central Asia region for The Global SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance System-Policy Persistence and Transmission project.