Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
[2][3] When she arrived at Yale, Chen played violin and piano but she picked up several more extracurricular activities including Russian and Chinese calligraphy during the course of her undergraduate studies.
[3] Chen was a student at Yale when she first became involved with campaigning, taking part in a protest on New Haven Green to stand against land mines.
[4][7] Doctors for America is a nonprofit which mobilizes physicians and medical students to improve the health of people in the United States.
[13][14] In an interview with CBC News, Chen said that the social isolation "can spiral into depression or anxiety, and this can have serious ramifications on a person's physical and mental health".
[13] Writing with her husband and fellow physician, Vivek Murthy, in The Atlantic, Chen argued that the lingering damage of breaking up communities would be more difficult to measure than the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on the economy.