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Milken Scholar 2015
Scholar Profile

Bri Matusovsky

Public Health

Biography

Bri Matusovsky holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology from UC San Francisco-UC Berkeley. They graduated from Yale University, where they earned a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Global Health Studies. They are an environmental and medical anthropologist and applied social science researcher. Their dissertation research investigated how the afterlives of colonial experimentation in the Caribbean shape contemporary culture and science in laboratories, agriculture, and environmental intervention. In their free time, Bri enjoys meditation, yoga, drag, reading and writing poetry, and experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.

Bri is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the UC San Francisco Division of Geriatrics. Outside of their academic research and teaching, Bri teaches yoga classes, and is interested in starting to host yoga retreats. Let them know if you have any advice or ideas about this.


High school:  Santa Monica High School

Degrees

College Year Degree
Yale College
New Haven, CT
2019 B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
2026 Ph.D. Medical Anthropology