Programs

  • Royce Fellowship
Lindsay
Nickel

Concentration 

Public Health

Award Year 

2011
Examining HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Sport: A Case Study of Hoops 4 Hope

Faculty Sponsor: Eli Wolff

Lindsay investigated basketball as a means for delivering HIV prevention and health education while working with Hoops 4 Hope in Cape Town, South Africa. She worked to understand the risk factors for local youth in contracting HIV and examine how effective sport coaches are in delivering HIV/AIDS prevention programs.

Lindsay is a partner implementation manager at Evolent Health in Washington D.C.