Maddie McCarthy, A.B., Contributing Writer

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Maddie McCarthy recently graduated from Brown University in 2024, with a concentration in Health and Human Biology and is currently pursuing her Master’s of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She also works as Research Assistant to the Dean at the Yale School of Public Health. Previously, she worked with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on the youth mental health crisis and other critical public health challenges. In the middle of her undergraduate education, she took a leave of absence to complete a yearlong position with the Department of Surgery at Stanford University where she worked on studies aiming to make surgery safer for frail patients. Prior to that, she completed research fellowships with Weill Cornell Medicine, the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, and the Rhode Island General Assembly. She also serves as an appointed member of the Rhode Island Hospital Ethics Committee. She is particularly interested in surgery, bioethics, the patient-physician relationship, and more generally, intractable issues in healthcare and public health. When not thinking about these things, she enjoys long-distance running, ski touring, non-fiction science books, and swimming with her portuguese water dog, Rio.