Ayan Patel is an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California from Northern California. He is currently a candidate for a B.S. in Global Health Studies at the University of Southern California. His interest in the field of international relations focuses on health around the world, and its connections to pressing issues like climate change, north-south relations, and conflict. Outside of GPI, Ayan is a photographer for Haute Magazine and works for the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health as a Youth Ambassador.