• Royce Fellowship
Meg
Cary

Concentration 

Biology

Award Year 

1997

Meg will spend her summer working with a nonprofit, non-governmental community development organization in Bolivia. Meg will work in clinics and with various health and hygiene education initiatives in preparation for designing a disease prevention outreach program.

Meg is now a pediatric psychiatrist at the Oregon Health and Science University. Meg continues to pursue her Royce research interest exploring how culture influences one’s relationship with self, health and illness. In particular she focuses on the ways in which culture contributes to resilience. Through opportunities to train and work internationally, in Bolivia, Guatemala, Nepal and Haiti, as well as with specific cultural groups nationally, she has gained experience with the diversity and complexity expectations of health and treatment, as well as the universality of resilience.