Jalen Cai

Symposium · invited Spring 2025

When Sympify Took Us to Harvard

Harvard Youth in Public Health Symposium

An invitation that arrived because of Sympify's public-health work — and turned into a five-student team, a dataset on niacin and blood pressure, and a presentation that won partly by refusing to overclaim.

Spring 2025 Public healthData analysisTeam lead
Two student badges for the Public Health Symposium for Young Generations, Boston, one reading Jalen Cai, on Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health programme leaflets
Badges and programme, Boston, April 2025

How the invitation happened

Our invitation to the Harvard Youth in Public Health Symposium grew out of Sympify’s work and commitment to public health.

At the symposium

At the symposium, I represented Diamond Bar High School and led a five-student team analyzing the relationship between niacin and systolic blood pressure. We presented our findings with an emphasis on responsible interpretation and ultimately delivered a winning presentation.

The experience gave me a chance to step outside Sympify’s usual work and think about public health from a different angle.

Add symposium photos, the presentation, and the event link — photo candidates are in the Drive Sympify_HYPS folder, but IMG_5916.PNG must not be used (it contains participant email addresses)

Images, posters & documents

The vaulted interior of a Harvard hall, stained glass at the far end and chandeliers overhead
Inside Memorial Hall
A bronze plaque for the John Crayton Snyder Auditorium at the Harvard School of Public Health
Snyder Auditorium
An empty tiered lecture hall at Harvard with wood-panelled desks, a projection screen and red curtains at the front
The hall before the room filled