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At the time of the QE Scholarship, Natalie was an undergraduate student in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program at Â鶹ÊÓƵ University. Throughout her undergraduate career, she worked at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s ForumLab as a research assistant helping to maintain both Health Systems Evidence and Social Systems Evidence databases. She also helped to add content to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Optimal Aging Portal by using her bilingualism to translate resources from English to French. Through her work and volunteer experience, Natalie hopes to improve the accessibility of research evidence and healthcare services for vulnerable populations.

As an outbound Queen Elizabeth Scholar, Natalie travelled to South Africa to work at the Africa Centre for Evidence at the University of Johannesburg. She assisted with the development of resources, tools and evidence maps to support policy decision making in African jurisdictions. During her internship, she hoped to gain insight on how evidence is synthesized and modified in response to the changing needs of policy makers and help further enhance communication between South Africa and other neighbouring French speaking countries.