Omar Akram

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Omar Akram is a dual-degree Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health student at the UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine. He has interned for the Institute for Health Promotion Research, where he assisted in implementing NIH-funded public health policy interventions in the South Texas community, and has also served on his institution’s COVID Student Response Team, in which he helped publish evidence-based information sheets on the ongoing effects of federal and state health policies on high-risk populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Omar intends to spend his career exploring the intersection of medicine, public health, and public policy with a focus on refugee and migrant health. [1]

MPAC intern

In 2021 Omar Akram was a Muslim Public Affairs Council Congressional Leadership Development Program intern in the office of Congressman Lloyd Doggett.

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