Medical Student
Pennsylvania State College of Medicine
Yuliya Faryna is a second-year medical student at the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine (PSCOM) affiliated with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She is an Urban Health Equity Scholar at PSCOM, aspiring to serve immigrants and marginalized communities as a future OBGYN. She graduated in 2021 from the Honors Program at the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science in Global Health. Her Honors Thesis focused on identifying the risk factors for caregiver non-participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Her clinical research interests include social determinants of health, maternal health equity, reproductive health advocacy, and complex family planning. Yuliya is currently working on her PSCOM Medical Student Research Project, which focuses on the development and piloting of a discrete choice experiment instrument to assess Rh-negative pregnant patients' decision-making and risk-tolerance to accepting or foregoing Rh immunoglobulin after first-trimester bleeding events, such as spontaneous, threatened, and induced abortions.
