4th-year Biology student named Schwarzman Scholar

Ozan Beran Akturan sees public health care modernization as a means to further international peacemaking efforts. Committed to entrepreneurial innovation with social impact, the fourth-year student at the University of Chicago will pursue these interdisciplinary interests in a global context next year through the Schwarzman Scholars program.

One of 145 students chosen this year for this prestigious fellowship, Akturan will complete a one-year master’s program in global affairs next year at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he will pursue coursework in public policy, economics, business and international relations.

A biological sciences major at UChicago, Akturan is combining different disciplinary perspectives to tackle some of the most challenging issues faced by the medical industry. While studying in China, he hopes to learn from how China modernizes its healthcare system by reducing regional disparities and cultivating medical innovation hubs.

Read the full story here: https://college.uchicago.edu/news/academic-stories/fourth-year-aims-solve-global-health-care-disparities-schwarzman.