Zina Huxley-reicher MD

Zina Huxley-Reicher is a Resident Doctor at Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. She would describe herself as a reluctant applicant to medical school. Her decision to pursue medicine ultimately came from her time working in public health. She worked at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Opioid Overdose Prevention. There she was doing a lot of community work with our partner organizations and it was during her interactions with individual participants that she realized that she not only wanted to be involved in the policy and programming work of public health but that she also wanted to be able to provide clinical care. She was inspired by the way that many of my mentors at DOHMH drew on their clinical experience to inform public health interventions in such meaningful ways.