Alumna Named One of Forbes ’30 Under 30′.
Christine Baugh (’12) has been included in the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30: Sports list.
“As a former athlete, it was exciting to be on the sports list,” says Baugh, who made the Forbes list for her research on concussions and repetitive brain trauma in contact sports—and the policies that could prevent them.
That research has been reported by the New York Times, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and other major outlets.
As an MPH student at the School of Public Health, Baugh won multiple awards for her work on concussions in youth sports. She also began to look at how National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) institutions create and implement policies to reduce the dangers of contact sports.
While at SPH, Baugh was also the research coordinator at BU’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center, and after graduation was appointed a research instructor in the Department of Neurology at the School of Medicine. She is now a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in health policy at Harvard University and a graduate research assistant in the Division of Sports Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.
As for being an academic on a list of sports professionals, Baugh, a former college rower, says, “I hope that those who saw my profile on the sports list might pause to think about the importance of athletes’ health during and after their sports careers.”
She just wishes her spot on the list could include everyone else involved in that research: “It’s always a team effort.”