Margot Mai’s interest in medicine began as a child in California, when her mother showed her a magazine article about Doctors Without Borders. Mai came to Harvard to pursue biology and pre-med, only to discover anthropology, and changed her concentration early in her sophomore year.⠀ ⠀ “A couple of things have become clear to me during my time at Harvard: how I envision health and how I want to practice health,” Mai said. “Anthropology has been really helpful for me to view medicine as very much global and holistic, far-reaching and not just limited to physical symptoms and a biomedical report.”⠀ ⠀ Mai spent last summer in Marseille, working with a French nongovernmental organization (NGO) that aims to rehabilitate Nigerian sex workers — undocumented women who migrate to Europe through a dangerous infrastructure in search of a better life. It was her time in Marseille that solidified her ambition to become a physician-anthropologist. ⠀ ⠀ Mai intends to continue with her research, but a...