When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, Krysten Thomas, M.P.H. ’18, was well on her way to fulfilling her goal of practicing health care law. She was working at the D.C. Court of Appeals, taking a full load of evening classes at the Georgetown University Law Center and teaching street law at the District of Columbia Jail. But as the pandemic worsened, Thomas knew she could not sit idly by. Despite her busy schedule, Thomas took on two new jobs to put her public health knowledge to use. To this day, she conducts COVID-19 research for the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security, and she conducts COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS research for the Georgetown O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Frustrated by the government’s response to the pandemic, Thomas also became a Democratic National Convention Delegate for D.C. “I got into those roles because I wanted to help,” she said. “The Yale School of Public Health gave me this incredible toolbox of public...