Christian Small earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern Maine after which he spent 4 years in Apia, Samoa as part of the United States Peace Corps where he headed the science department at a local secondary school and extended his assignment to secure funds to build a cafeteria and science lab at the school and to become the head science teacher at St. Mary’s College.  He earned his medical degree from John A. Burns School of Medicine in Oahu, Hawaii.  In medical school Christian was the clinic manager of Homeless Outreach and Medical Education (HOME), a project to connect those in shelter with clinical services.  He co-founded Outbound Eye Health International and created and executed a mission to deliver eye screening and eye glasses to medically underserved, rural residents in Western Samoa including the coordination of cataract surgery among volunteer specialists.   He was also President of the Global Health Student Interest Group.