Veronica Upadhyay is a Statistics B.S student with a passion for biostatistics. In 2024, Veronica was awarded the UNC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to independently analyze the probabilistic the risks of enteric illnesses for MAPSAN using Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA). She has been designing R programs for MAPSAN to expedite data cleaning and provide insightful summary statistics since Fall 2022. Veronica is interested in research exploring connections between existing structures and health disparities.