Grace Toolsie is a Master of Public Health candidate in the division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at UC Berkeley. She received her Bachelor's degree in Public Health at UC Berkeley. During her undergraduate studies, she pursued research projects ranging from Next-Generation Sequencing for invasive arthropod detection in the South Pacific to studies on physician-patient relationships and healthcare outcomes. Grace is currently conducting research with the Rosenthal/Conrad Lab at UCSF, where she investigates polyclonal Plasmodium falciparum infections in Uganda and their contribution to antimalarial drug susceptibility phenotypes.