Ramez Hassanen

2026-2028 Voyager Scholarship Recipient

Ramez Hassanen is passionate about improving health care equity by designing bilingual patient navigation systems and community-based support frameworks for historically underserved urban populations. As an active 911 EMT in New York City, Ramez witnessed firsthand how language and communication barriers across the 5 boroughs can make care harder to navigate.

Hometown : Brooklyn, NY

Institution : City University of New York

Major : Biomedical Sciences

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Voyager Scholarship

The Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service helps students who have a passion for helping others, experience serving in or building community, and an expansive view of what’s possible through public service.