<p>Blossom: I don’t know about Harvard pre-meds (my sample is pretty limited), but I know a number of former Yale pre-meds who are doing the kinds of thing you describe, or who have academic positions with a significant public health focus. My former roommate is Chief Quality Officer at a major urban hospital and does outcomes research. One of my wife’s former roommates is an internist in Alaska with a very diverse (economically, ethnically) patient base, and another is head of Infectious Diseases (i.e., AIDS, venereal diseases, cholera, malaria) at a top medical school. We have two close friends who serve primarily low-income patients out of clinics associated with Boston City. All but one of them went to Harvard Medical School, by the way.</p>