John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellow in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Leigh Alon is an MD/PhD student in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, in her sixth year of the PhD. She is working on a dissertation tracking how American Jewish physicians defined Jewishness in biological terms from the late 19th into the 21st century. Before attending graduate school, she worked in HIV prevention at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination as a research coordinator.