Princeton senior Sydnae Taylor awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Princeton University senior Sydnae Taylor has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The program was established in 2000 by a donation to Cambridge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

Taylor is among 77 U.S. and international winners of the scholarship.

Taylor is from Kingston, Jamaica. She plans to pursue an MPhil in health, medicine and society at Cambridge. She then intends to obtain her Ph.D. in a public health-related field and pursue a career in global health in developing countries.

At Princeton, Taylor serves as a student representative in the Global Health Program and is a former research fellow for the Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism Project, working with a five-member digital humanities team. She is also a member of student advisory boards with the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) and the Department of Music.

In summer 2021, she served as an intern (remote) with Bolivia’s Child Family Health International through the International Internship Program. Her global healthcare experience also includes serving as a consultant for one year (remote) with Fòs Feminista in Panama.

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