Programs

  • Royce Fellowship
Lilly
Siems

Concentration 

Community Health and Psychology

Award Year 

2011
Disability to Ability: Using Sport to Improve Health and Empower the Disabled in a World of Limited

Faculty Sponsors: MaryLou McMillan and Susan Allen

Lilly worked with Global Outreach and Love of Soccer (GOALS) in Haiti and Sport 4 Socialization (S4S) in Zimbabwe to better understand how non-profit organizations incorporate people with different physical abilities. Lilly assisted in the development of a new sport program focused on the disabled population in Leogane, Haiti, then traveled to Mutare, Zimbabwe to work with an S4S program and revise their current monitoring and evaluation system.

In 2016, Lilly completed her Master’s Degree in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to that she was a Research Assistant for Project Viva at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. She is currently the Data Abstractor at International Vaccine Access Center.