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Faye Shen Li Thijssen
Ph.D. Student in Environmental Social Sciences, admitted Autumn 2025
BioFaye is a PhD student in Environmental Social Sciences. Her research focuses on how global institutions and powerful actors shape environmental governance structures, with particular focuses on United States overseas military basing & anti-basing social movements, and multinational corporations.
Prior to coming to Stanford, her research focused on indirect corporate influence in environmental politics, investigating executional greenwashing and its potential to affect public perceptions and preferences for regulatory policy. This research primarily employed experimental methods, with support from the Oxford Department of Politics & International Relations and the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences. -
Ben Thomas
Juris Doctor Student, Law
BioBen Thomas is a current 1L at Stanford Law School. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, he graduated with highest honors from Emory University as a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar in 2023, concentrating in political science, comparative literature, and Russian. Ben then earned his MLitt in Comparative Literature as a Robert T. Jones Scholar from Scotland's University of St Andrews in August 2024. He also tutors high school students currently applying to college in the U.S., as well as those conducting independent research. Ben's own published work spans biochemistry, comparative literature, education policy, Russian studies, ethics, and comparative politics, and his internship experiences have ranged from an international peace-building nonprofit and a congressional campaign to a digital literary studio and California’s Environmental Protection Agency. In his free time, he enjoys playing bass trombone, running, doing crosswords, attempting landscape photography, and hiking.
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Hannah Thomas
Ph.D. Student in Health Policy, admitted Autumn 2024
BioI am a resident in urologic surgery at the University of Toronto, currently pursuing my PhD in Health Policy (Decision Sciences) at Stanford University as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. I previously completed a Masters in Global Health Sciences from UCSF.
I am passionate about leveraging data to guide evidence-based health policy, both domestically and globally. My doctoral thesis uses mathematical modelling to address critical disparities between the burden of disease and the urologic workforce- seeking to provide actionable insights for workforce planning and development in resource-constrained healthcare systems.
I serve on the Board of Trustees for the International Student Surgical Network. -
Blake Thomson
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Health Services & Policy Research, expected graduation Spring 2027
BioBlake Thomson is a health disparities researcher and medical student at Stanford. An epidemiologist by training, he holds an MPhil in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil (PhD) in Population Health from the University of Oxford. He has held several posts focused on health equity science, including most recently as Principal Scientist in Cancer Disparities Research at the American Cancer Society.
Blake has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles in medical and public health journals, including The Lancet and JAMA. His first-author publications have appeared in such journals as The Lancet Global Health, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Oncology, JAMA Neurology, Chest, and Circulation, among others. This work has received media attention from such outlets as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Nature, and National Geographic. His clinical and academic interests are focused on the prevention and control of common and debilitating diseases, particularly among those historically underrepresented in medical research.
