Kimsa Nguyen is a medical student at California Health Sciences University, College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees and will be the first in her family to become a physician.Prior to medical school, she earned an MPH in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health from University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and an undergraduate degree from University of California, Davis in Cell Biology. She is passionate about health equity, social impact, and reproductive justice. She is enthusiastic about working in the intersection of public health and medicine to address health disparities and to engage in meaningful systems-level change to ensure that people can live their best, healthiest lives. Outside of medicine, she loves to spend time in nature, travel, and cook for her loved ones!