Alina Wilson
2025
Stanford University
Alina Wilson is a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned an honors degree in Human Biology in 2024. She has contributed to infectious disease and public health projects in Switzerland, Taiwan, South Africa, Chile, and the United States, including founding the V.O.I.C.E.S. Project, a grant-funded service organization dedicated to reducing COVID-19 vaccination disparities among Oklahoma’s Black community. Alina has contributed to global health initiatives alongside several prominent organizations, including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Gates Foundation; Doctors Without Borders (MSF); and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
An avid martial artist, Alina co-founded the Stanford Muay Thai Club, served as President of the Stanford Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club and competed professionally as an international boxer in Thailand under Kru Dang. She is also a certified interfaith leader and narrative journalist — founding the Stanford Wellbeing Dinner Series, producing an internationally recognized podcast as a Braden Storytelling Grantee, and participating in the national Building Interfaith Leaders Initiative Fellowship. Alina is a recipient of the Stanford Award of Excellence, Kirsten Frohnmayer Research Prize for Human Biology Juniors, and the Cap and Gown Leader Award. She has also been recognized as an international Girls Leading Our World Cohort selectee and a United Nations Foundation Shot@Life Vaccine Champion.
As a Marshall Scholar, Alina aims to pursue an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Master of Public Policy at Oxford. She intends to leverage her studies in the United Kingdom to become a physician advocate and public health leader.