Huy Le, BSN, RN (he/him) is a PhD Nursing student at Penn Nursing. His research aims to support health of people experiencing housing insecurity and propose policies that foster healthy communities. He intends to combine nursing, urban planning, bioethics, and sociology to address root causes of health inequities through examining contexts of place, time, and structural violence. He seeks to learn health economics in co-designing cost-effective and equitable distribution of resources that support public health interventions.
Huy earned a BSN with highest honors and a Bridging Disciplines Certificate from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked as an Operating Room RN in Neurosurgery and Orthopedics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital before attending Penn Nursing.
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Huy Le
- PhD Student, Penn Nursing
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