Ethan Rhee

Founder

Ethan Rhee is a high school junior from California. During his freshman year, he started the Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Podcast on Spotify after hearing stories about antibiotic resistance from his parents who are in the healthcare industry. He learned that by 2050, antibiotic resistance will lead to more deaths than cancer. This made him realize that everyone, including his generation, needs to take action now in order to protect antibiotic effectiveness and save lives. He created the RX Take Back Initiative to help his community safely dispose of old prescription medications in order to prevent antibiotics and others medications from contaminating our water supplies. He also created a youth advisory board that collected used contacts and packaging to recycle them at Bausch & Lomb recycling centers after he learned that microplastics could contribute to spreading antibiotic resistance. Ethan’s work with the ARA Podcast has allowed him to network and collaborate with health experts who have global reach such as One Health Trust, SAS Africa and CARB-X. He has been selected to participate in the Johns Hopkins Global Health Leaders Conference for summer 2023. He is an AMR Insights Ambassador committed to raising antibiotic resistance awareness with the global community of stewards. He is also doing a research internship with at the UCI Beckman Laser Institute studying biophotonic technologies as non-invasive imaging tools for the biology of the skin. He has been selected to attend the Yale Young Global Scholars program in summer 2024 to do a two-week capstone project in Solving Global Challenges. He also repairs broken ceramics through the sustainable art of Kintsugi and has exhibited his works at the annual OC Maker Faire that attracts over 1600 attendees. LinkedIn Profile