Juan Esteban Baus is a “Double Domer” after graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Science-Business in 2019 and a Masters in Global Health from the Eck Institute for Global Health in 2020. His involvement with AHD started after the devastating earthquake Ecuador faced in 2016 by fundraising on campus through the student organization, Hesburgh’s Heroes. That summer, he volunteered in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, helping refugees in a local refugee camp and others who sought help through a local church. His involvement with the club lasted throughout his time at Notre Dame and he went on to serve as Vice President then President of the club.
Post graduation, Juan Esteban worked at the Eck Institute for Global Health where he collaborated with the St. Joseph County Department of Health researching and developing strategies in the fields of adverse childhood effects, health equity, and the lead crisis in South Bend. His work led him to New York City in 2022 where he worked at the New York University School of Public Health researching and implementing interventions for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among drug-injecting users. Currently, Juan Esteban works as an Assistant Research Scientist at NYU Langone Health in the Transplant Institute. Despite being born in Voorburg, The Netherlands, Juan Esteban is Ecuadorian and grew up between Quito, Ecuador and McLean, Virginia most of his life.
