Francisco is a first-year student in the clinical health concentration working with Dr. Matthew Cribbet. He earned his ScM in Epidemiology at Brown University after earning a BA in Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is interested in learning more about the factors which mediate and moderate the association between adverse childhood experiences and deleterious health outcomes like obesity and metabolic syndrome. During his free time, he enjoys trying new food, listening to new music, and learning the guitar.