I am Sophia Brittain (she/her) a 4th-year in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Biology with a minor in Predictive Health. Ultimately, I want to be a physician specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology. My interactions with people and hearing their barriers to health, specifically reproductive health issues, propelled me to want to pursue medicine. During my time at Emory, I have been able to become actively involved in many things I am passionate about - healthcare access, health promotion, community engagement, research and Emory spirit.

I am the Senior Co-President for Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGA) which is an organization that works to mobilize advocates for reproductive freedom, raise campus and public awareness about reproductive health and rights, educate young people about sexual health and create lasting change on Emory’s campus through activism, advocacy and education. In 2023-2024, I was one of 11 students selected to participate in the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Student Leadership Cohort and I traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with staff of the Vice President’s office and the Department of Education about the health needs of college students. I also had the opportunity to give remarks and introduce Vice President Kamala Harris at a meeting of college and university presidents and administrators on the health needs of college students led by Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona and Vice President Harris. Later in 2023, I had the pleasure of meeting Vice President Harris at a reception in her home. In 2023, I created and started PPGA’s health items distribution service called EZEC. Lastly, I am a founding member of the Emory University Health Access team that works to make health resources more accessible to all Emory students.

As a research assistant, I’m part of a team that is studying the relationships between stress, cardiovascular disease, and Ovarian Aging in African-American women. I am the Co-President of Wonderful Wednesday and for the last three years have enjoyed encouraging school spirit, tradition and belonging by attracting the entire Emory community to gather on Wednesday afternoons for social, cultural and school activities. In my free time, I enjoy volunteering, dancing, taking yoga classes, and going on long walks in Lullwater Preserve.