MDP student Tyrell Kahan is a veterinarian who is passionate about international development, and focused on issues related to the human-animal interface in agricultural expansion and disease transmission. Close to graduation in August 2016, Kahan was a semi-finalist for the American Veterinary Medical Association Fellowship, and winner of two prestigious fellowship, the AAAS Science and Technology Fellowship and a Fulbright Student Program to conduct research in Uganda. After a lot of thought about his future career goals and aspirations, Kahan accepted the AAAS Fellowship, which will provide support for him to work as an international research advisor with the Bureau for Food Security of United States Agency for International Development, in Washington. He will take up this post after completing his second summer field practicum, for which he will work with the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya to investigate how climate change is impacting livestock-based livelihoods and what strategies can help build household resilience. Last summer, Tyrell served with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International in areas surrounding a national park in Rwanda which is home to endangered mountain gorillas. He also spent some time in Uganda doing disease surveillance and training with a Veterinarians Without Borders team. Kahan exemplifies the MDP commitment to interdisciplinary approaches and integration of policy and practice and was also among the outstanding graduate students recognized by the Laney Graduate School during Graduate Student Appreciation last April. Kahan commented “I feel incredibly blessed to have been offered such great opportunities. I do believe that the training that I received from MDP and at Emory more generally played a large part in my ability to be competitive in these programs. I now feel assured that the choice to attend the Emory MDP program was one of the best decisions of my career so far”.