A third-year medical student also pursing her MPH. She completed her undergraduate studies in Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University and did research in neuromotor disorders at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After graduation, she spent a year in Geneva, Switzerland on a Fulbright Fellowship. She conducted research on violence against healthcare, focusing on cyber violence against hospitals, at the University of Geneva’s Institute of Global Health. During this time, she also collaborated with a team of international surgeons and trainees to develop a hack-a-thon focused on increasing access to surgery in East Africa. Salem is working on the Sub-Saharan region of The Global SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance System-Policy Persistence and Transmission project.