Gwen Hughes

Name: Gwen Hughes Picture of Faculty/Staff Member
Alumni Of:
  • School of Public Policy
Degree(s):
  • B.S. PUBP 2015
Current Job: Senior Program Assistant at the National Academy of Medicine
Biography:

Gwen Hughes is a spring 2015 Georgia Institute of Technology graduate with a Bachelor in Science in Public Policy and a minor in Biology. She currently works in Washington, DC as a Senior Program Assistant at the National Academy of Medicine’s Leadership Consortium for a Value and Science-Driven Health System. The Leadership Consortium brings together national leaders in health and health care to work cooperatively toward their common commitment to effective, innovative care that consistently adds value to patients and society. As a Senior Program Assistant, Gwen is responsible for helping facilitate meetings of Consortium members and providing support and research for written Consortium products.

While in college, she was actively engaged in mental health advocacy, playing a key role in several mental health reform initiatives and founding the Georgia Tech chapter of Active Minds, a student-led organization dedicated to fighting stigma against mental illness. She also was involved in the community service community and policy research, and worked at The Carter Center, President Jimmy Carter's philanthropic foundation, and at The Corporation for National and Community Service. After graduation, Gwen worked planning peer-to-peer medical education events before joining the Leadership Consortium.