Jasmin Eatman

Jasmin Eatman is a 2017 graduate of Spelman College (GA), where she received her bachelor’s degree in biology. She graduated with her master’s degree in neuroscience in 2018. Eatman deferred her matriculation into medical school for one year and, during this time, she lived and worked in Ecuador as a medical volunteer. She is now a fifth-year medical student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at Emory University (GA) and is completing her Ph.D. through the Department of Environmental Health at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. Her doctoral thesis focuses on exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and non-chemical psychosocial stress exposures, including racial discrimination, and their impacts on Black maternal morbidity. Eatman’s present passions and future career aspirations include advocating for maternal health equity, diversity in medical education, and advancing standards of health care access and delivery through policy.