ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT RICHARD YUXUAN ZHU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Harvard University | Massachusetts, United States | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 10
" Disease creates so much suffering, and the work that I do through my research and with the Harvard Global Alliance for Medical Innovation has always been to either alleviate suffering through studying diseases directly or improve the medical and therapeutic discovery systems so that clinicians and scientists can better treat disease. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Harvard Global Alliance for Medical Innovation
The Harvard Global Alliance for Medical Innovation (GAMI) is a student-run research group harnessing computational and engineering techniques for solving global health challenges. I am currently co-president and oversee 11 project teams and 50+ students. Each of our project teams is focused on a different global health issue, and we partner with biomedical experts like Harvard physicians and global nonprofits who provide us with the real-world global health needs that we then try to address with our engineering proposals or solutions. As part of the Millennium Fellowship, I resolved to identify new projects for GAMI with well-defined problems and good quality datasets (or tractable ways of implementing our solutions). I am happy to say that we ideated or refined multiple projects this semester, from starting a collaboration with WHO Africa focused on AI-based prediction models for infectious disease hazards to starting analysis of the 120-patient dataset for our movement disorder diagnostic/assessment algorithm.
About the Millennium Fellow
Richard Zhu is an undergraduate at Harvard University studying Statistics and Neuroscience. He is passionate about applying artificial intelligence and computational tools to drug discovery and other medical challenges. On campus, he has conducted research in Alzheimer’s disease and biomedical AI agent systems. He currently serves as co-president of the Harvard Global Alliance for Medical Innovation, an incubator for technological solutions to pressing global health challenges, as well as co-president of Harvard Crimson TALES, an intergenerational storytelling initiative. Through the Millennium Fellowship, he hopes to create social impact through medicine and technology while connecting with others passionate about these fields.
