ABOUT

Jennifer Tsai is an Emergency Medicine physician, writer, educator, and advocate seeking to advance medical and climate justice across health systems. She has a Masters of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a BA in Ethnic Studies and Human Biology from Brown University. 

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Her essays and research has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Washington Post, The Lancet, Scientific American, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Academic Medicine, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and more.  She has been interviewed for pieces in The New York Times, The Intercept, STATNews, among other outlets, and her writing has been recognized as notable works of literary nonfiction in The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

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Her research focuses on the intersection of race, inequity, trauma-informed care, and medicine. She has a particular interest in Social Medicine curricula and hopes to develop medical education using principles of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Narrative Medicine. 

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She can often be found wondering what would happen if she were to pursue a PhD, dancing around in places that aren’t dance studios, reading books on the floor, or dreaming about meals she doesn’t have the patience to cook. Send dance videos and pretty words to @tsaiduck77.