Oluwatoni (Toni) Aluko, MPH, is second yea medical student at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Originally a native of the quaint state of Maryland, Toni earned her BS in Kinesiological Sciences, with minors in Spanish and Community Health, and her MPH in Community Health Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. When she isn’t perusing through textbooks, Toni enjoys traveling, cooking, sewing, and working out.

As an undergraduate, Toni balanced her commitment to athletics as a scholarship student-athlete on the Maryland track and field team, with her passion for health education as a Sexual Health and Reproductive Peer educator, conducting safer sex and women’s health workshops for students. She carried this passion into her graduate program where she served as a teaching assistant for a first-year public health course, and as a graduate assistant for the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program (SARPP) through the University of Maryland health center. As a graduate assistant, she conducted sexual violence prevention and bystander intervention training for students. Her master’s thesis assessed medical student’s beliefs regarding screening for intimate partner violence in clinical settings.

Toni currently serves as the Class of 2016 Community Service Chair, Freshmen Liaison to the Family Medicine Interest Group, and on Meharry’s AMWA chapter executive board as the Global Health Chair. She also volunteers at Meharry’s free student-run clinic, 12 South Clinic. Toni is excited about the opportunity to serve AMWA as a Global Health Chair, and bridge her passion for service with her interest in global health. She ultimately hopes to inspire more medical students, particularly those traditionally underrepresented in medicine, to engage in global health service and leadership experiences.

 

 

 

 

 

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