Doctor of Global Health Leadership and Practice

Student Profile

RAQUEL SANCHEZ | UNITED STATES

Raquel has dedicated her professional life to mission-driven organizations, health disparities efforts, and mentoring historically excluded individuals. She has sought out positions of service that placed her at two top comprehensive cancer centers at the forefront of cancer research and care, where, amid managing multiple solid tumor clinics, she wouldn’t pass up an opportunity to translate for Hispanic families in need of extra support. As a first-generation student, she has a passion for creating access for others and further attained her MBA to be better equipped to break down barriers for her community. After spending several years as the leader of a collaborative global oncology program in Uganda, she enthusiastically joined the UW Doctor of Global Health program. She is the first doctoral student in her extended family to ever attempt a doctoral degree and proudly represents her extended Latino community in this and all she does. Raquel is working to create future opportunities to empower others and broaden her influence to create significant global change for the historically excluded and exploited in the world.