STEPHANIE SAFDI
Special Assistant to Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA
Stephanie Safdi joined the Center in 2007 as Special Assistant to Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, the Center's Senior Advisor for Health and Medicine. She also serves as project manager of the Center's Palestine-Israel Health Initiative, which is part of a $1 million USAID cooperative agreement to build trust and reconciliation among the two societies.
In 2005 Stephanie graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, where she majored in History and Literature. Her undergraduate thesis, How They Wrote America: Anzia Yezierska and the Discourse of Pluralism, won the Hoopes Prize, the highest university prize for an undergraduate thesis, the Ethnic Studies prize for the best Harvard thesis on a topic related to ethnic studies, and the university prize for the best History and Literature thesis. At Harvard, Stephanie founded and directed Wilderness One-to-One, an experiential education and mentoring program for underserved Boston youth. She also was awarded the Harvard-Cambridge scholarship to spend a year studying at Cambridge University in England, where she completed a Masters of Philosophy in Historical Studies with a thesis on the history of breast cancer in modern England. She subsequently won a post-baccalaureate fellowship at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health. Stephanie returned to Harvard to spend a year conducting intensive research on global public health issues, including fair financing, effective coverage, and quality and access to health care in the United States and abroad.
Contact Stephanie at 202-872-9800 or via e-mail.
