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Clinical Research Assistant
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Kastin Pan, MS, is a clinical research assistant in infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
She recently earned her Master of Science in Epidemiology degree at the Fielding School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles. Her thesis was focused on evaluating photo-based systems for estimating vaccination rates in resource-limited settings.
Prior to graduate school, Kastin was an infectious disease research assistant at Calibr - The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, where she supported drug repurposing initiatives targeting neglected tropical diseases, such as Chagas disease and malaria.
She holds a double-major in General Biology (BS) and Biological Anthropology (BA) from University of California, San Diego, where she developed an early interest in infectious disease and the impact of sociocultural and environmental factors on global health outcomes.