Introducing Petrie-Flom’s 2025-2026 Student Fellows

Tai Dinger 

JD/PhD 2028

Tai is a law student and a PhD candidate in Health Policy. Before Harvard, he was an engineer at Epic Systems where he focused on leveraging insurance claims data to track population health. At Harvard, Tai explores the intersections of law, economics, and decision sciences, the study of how we [should] make decisions. His research interests include insurance design, disease modeling, and quasi-experimental methods for policy analysis.

Julia Etkin 

MBE 2026

Julia is a Dean’s Scholar at Harvard Medical School, pursuing a Master of Science in the Center for Bioethics. Her research interests include biopsychosocial pharmacovigilance, health policy of novel psychoactive substances (NPS), trauma studies, and FDA regulation. She has published on topics at the intersection of ethics and equity, including work on FDA advisory committee reform with an emphasis on increasing public trust.

Danny Finley

JD 2026

Danny worked in the patient advocacy movement prior to law school in pursuit of policy solutions to the prescription drug affordability crisis in the United States, primarily focusing on the passage of Medicare negotiation of drug prices in 2022. This movement work motivated him to attend Harvard Law School where his focus has been health, antitrust, consumer protection, and civil rights law. His research focuses on how legal systems can be crafted to maximize patient access to affordable health care.

Quincy Martin

JD 2027

Quincy is a 2L at Harvard Law School with an interest in health care innovation and alternative payment reform. He previously worked in health care consulting, advising clients on value-based care and interoperability challenges. Drawing on his background in high-cost CRISPR-based therapeutics and community health, Martin now focuses his research on emerging trends and incentives under health care financing models.

Evelyn Shiang

JD/MPH 2027

Evelyn is a second-year dual-degree student in law and public health whose research interests include health care access and antitrust law. Prior to law school, she conducted research focused on consumer product safety and mental health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her publications have appeared in Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Injury Prevention, Injury Epidemiology, and Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology.

Aarushi Solanki

JD 2027

Aarushi graduated with a BS in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she conducted molecular psychiatry research, and later worked as a paralegal in a medical-legal partnership and as an EMT. She is interested in legal and financial frameworks shaping access to behavioral health care, the role of neuroscience in informing conceptions of moral responsibility, and judicial intervention in medical decision-making and professional authority.

Jared Vornhagen 

JD 2027

Jared is a second-year law student from Cincinnati, Ohio, and is interested in studying the intersection of law, science, and criminal justice. His recent research includes a series of experiments that examined several factors contributing to false confessions, such as suspect age and the presence of confession contamination. He has also co-authored published empirical research that explored attitude change toward the death penalty.