Jessica Saifee is currently a 3rd-year medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2016 with a degree in Neuroscience and South Asian studies. After college, she was a State Department critical language scholar for Urdu in Lucknow, India. She was then a Fulbright fellow in Tajikistan. She is currently in the global health track at her medical school where she focuses her interests and research on refugee health. Before matriculating to medical school, she worked at Boston Children's Hospital where she worked on research projects based in Bangladesh and Chile. She has interned at various international NGOs in India and Cambodia.

• Research Assistant

  Research · Boston Children's Hospital

  Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

• Advocacy
• Volunteering
• Philanthropy

• Track & Field

  Varsity

  2016 – 2018

• Cross-Country Running

  Varsity

  2012 – 2018

• Primary researcher

  University of Colorado School of Medicine · Medicine

  2019 – Present

  Research topic:

  Refugee Health

• Calligraphy

  Calligraphy

  Present

• Mentor

  Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains

  2021 – Present

  Mission:

  Working with incoming Afghan refugees

• Primary Teacher for American Corners in Khorog, Tajikistan

  Volunteering · Fulbright

  2016 – 2017

  Mission:

  English Teaching Assistant