Adam Flood is a dual Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Health student at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and University of Michigan School of Public Health. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. A native of Flint, Michigan, he has worked primarily in his hometown on public health research efforts. He has served as a research coordinator within the Michigan State University-Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, working to provide resources to mothers and children affected by the Flint Water Crisis. He also currently serves as a research coordinator for the University of Michigan Stroke Program on a study focusing on lowering hypertension in the Flint community. His professional interests revolve around utilizing public service and social policy to increase equity, access, opportunity and overall health and wellbeing in communities of need.