Nadia Hammoud is currently a senior at the University of Texas - Pan American where she is majoring in Biology with a minor in Biochemistry. She is part of the joint BS/MD Pre-Medical Honors College, which has offered her conditional acceptance to Baylor College of Medicine. Nadia is also a member of the Guerra Honors Program, Eta Omicron Nu, and Health Occupations Students of America, for which she served as Vice President. During her time as an Archer Fellow, she hopes to gain a better understanding of health care reform and public health through her internship. Upon returning from her internship, Nadia will be defending her thesis on a study of socioeconomic influences on childhood obesity. She will graduate in the spring of 2013 and will continue on to medical school to pursue an M.D/M.P.H.