Healthcare Policy Program Announces 2025-2026 Grossman Fellow
The Healthcare Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce that it has named Alisha Yi as its 2025-2026 Grossman Fellow.
Alisha Yi
Master in Public Policy Candidate, 2026
Alisha Yi is a rising fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, she attended Harvard College, where she studied History and Science. Over the past nine years, she has partnered with local community organizations to lead writing workshops that foster community resilience among groups that have been historically and economically marginalized. Her writing has been featured by the White House President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, the Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall, among others. She has also conducted historical and clinical research examining factors that impact mortality and quality of life. Alisha is interested in the intersection of history, ethics, religion/spirituality, and policy, and how they can be leveraged to address public health challenges, particularly in improving healthcare delivery for individuals as they age and approach the end of life. She plans to apply into internal medicine. In her free time, she enjoys running, playing tennis, and reading.
Returning Fellow
Claire Morton, MD
Master in Public Policy Candidate, 2026
Claire Morton, MD, is a second year general surgery resident at Yale New Haven Hospital with an interest in trauma and critical care. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Morton’s research focuses on improving the care delivered to older adult surgical patients and to all patients approaching the end of their lives. Dr. Morton has conducted prior research and policy work through the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins Hospital, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, and the Congressional Offices of Congressman John Sarbanes.
Dr. Morton holds an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, cum laude, where she was inducted into AOA, the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the David R Gens Shock Trauma Scholarship, the Department of Surgery Humanism in Surgery Award, and the Joanne Hatem MD Memorial Prize. She holds a Bachelors of Arts from Duke University where she designed an interdisciplinary major titled “What It Means to Die: The Biopsychosocial Process of Aging and Death” capstoned with a distinction thesis focused on narrative medicine techniques at the end of life. Dr. Morton intends to spend her career in service of advancing clinical excellence, conducting research to advance the field of surgical palliative care, and supporting policy change to improve the care delivered to older adults and those approaching the end of life.