PhD in Epidemiology
Adaeze V Anamege
PhD Student , Graduate Research Assistant, Mentored By Dr. Catalina Lopez-Quintero & Dr. Deepthi Varma
Research Interests:
- Social Determinants of Women’s health
- Maternal and Child Health
- Prenatal exposure to substances of abuse
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- adolescent health
Rebecca J Austin-Datta BSc, MS, MPH, MRSC. PhD Candidate
Mentor: Stephen Kimmel, MD, MSCE
Research Interests:
- Cancer Screening
- Colorectal Cancer
- Colorectal Peritoneal Metastases
- Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer
- Environmental Health/Public Health
- Epidemiology
- Molecular Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Public Health
Amadou Barrow
PhD Student; Graduate Research Assistant; Mentored By Dr Yan Wang
Research Interests:
- Big data analytics
- Causal inference
- Global Health
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
- Substance use epidemiology
Mark Britton
PhD Candidate; Predoctoral F31 Fellow; Mentored By Dr. Robert Cook
Research Interests:
- Cannabis Use
- HIV
- Neuroepidemiology
- Neuroinflammation
- Neurological Consequences of Substance Use
- Population Neuroscience
- alcohol use disorder
Mingjing Chen
PhD Student; Graduate Research Assistant; Mentored By Dr. Jinying Zhao
Research Interests:
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Epidemiology and public health
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Lipidomics
- Metabolomics
- Transesophageal echocardiography
Youngseo Cheon MPH
PhD Student; Graduate Research Assistant; Mentored By Dr. Krishna Vaddiparti
Research Interests:
- Health disparities and Social determinants of health
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
Scott A Cohen MPH, CPH
MD-PhD Student
Research Interests:
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Artificial Intelligence
- Causal inference
- Infectious disease epidemiology
Kayla V McNeely MPH
Phd Epidemiology Student, T32 Predoctoral Fellow, Mentored by Dr. Natalie Chichetto
Sara Nutley
Predoctoral Fellow; Mentored By Drs. Catherine Striley & Carol Mathews
Research Interests:
- Community Based Participatory Research
- Eating Disorders
- Hoarding Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Related Disorders
- Older Adult Mental Health
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Substance Use Disorders
Chidinma Oli
PhD Student, Graduate Research Assistant, Mentor: Dr. Kelly Gurka
Research Interests:
- Clinical Trials Design & Analysis
- Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Qualitative Research
- Social Epidemiology
Juan G Perez
MD, MSc; PhD Student; Graduate Research Assistant; Mentors: Dr. Lopez-Quintero And Dr. Cook
Research Interests:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Real World Evidence (RWE)
Maisey S Ratcliffe
Graduate Assistant
Research Interests:
- Clinical Trials Design & Analysis
- Breast cancer risk factors
- Cancer Clinical Trials
- Cancer epidemiology
- Early breast cancer detection
- Epidemiology and public health
- Patient Reported Outcomes
- Real World Evidence (RWE)
Kendall R Robinson
PhD Student; Mentor: Dr. Yan Wang
Research Interests:
- Cannabis Use
- Chronic Pain
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
- Gynecologic Cancer
- Pelvic pain
Lisbeth M Rubio MS, NCC
Graduate Assistant
Research Interests:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Gut Microbiome
- Health disparities and Social determinants of health
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
- adolescent health
Vijaya L Seegulam
NIDA T32 Predoctoral Fellow & PhD Student; Mentored By Dr. Linda B. Cottler
Research Interests:
- Cannabis Use
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Substance Use Disorders
Sarah E Ser
PhD Candidate; Mentored By Dr. Mattia Prosperi
Research Interests:
- AI Applications in Healthcare
- Causal inference
- Computable Phenotyping
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- Hospital-Acquired Falls
- Hospital-Induced Delirium
- Machine Learning
- Prediction Modeling
Michael Aaron G Sy
Graduate Assistant
Research Interests:
- AI Applications in Healthcare
- Machine learning and applications
- machine learning for predictive analytics
Zhilin Wang
Ph.D. Student; Graduate Research Assistant; Mentored By Dr. Ashley J. Malin
Research Interests:
- Environmental Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Neurodegeneration Disease
- Sleep Patterns
Caretia J Washington
MD-PhD Student; Mentored By Dr. Dejana Braithwaite
Research Interests:
- Cancer epidemiology
- Community-based health interventions
- Health Disparities
Xiaoxiao Wen
PhD Student/Research Assistant; Mentor: Dr. Jinying Zhao
Research Interests:
- Cardiometabolic disease epidemiology
- Epigenetics
- Novel biomarker discovery
- Omics data analysis
Meghann Wheeler
PhD Student/T32 Fellow; Mentored By: Dr Dejana Braithwaite
Research Interests:
- Cancer epidemiology
- Cancer survivorship
- Lung cancer
- Molecular epidemiology
PostDocs in Epidemiology
Jacob Bleasdale PhD, MS
Research Interests:
- Alcohol and substance use
- Community-Engaged Research
- HIV Prevention
- Harm Reduction
- Health-Related Social Needs
- Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations
- Sexual health
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Social Epidemiology
Cheng Gao
Robert Gregg
Durdana Khan
Liva G LaMontagne
Jackie Pollack
Research Interests:
- Carceral Justice and Healthcare Access
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Community Health
- Machine learning and applications
- Prediction Modeling
- Public Health Education & Epidemiology Education
- Reproductive Justice
- Suicide Prevention
- machine learning for predictive analytics
Master of Science in Epidemiology
MSE
| Student | Cohort | Mentor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Aalam, Ali | 2023 | |
| Albernas Gonzalez, Adrian | 2023 | |
| Belive, Natalia | 2023 | –– |
| Bonna, Atia | 2023 | Varma |
| Brisson, Ryan | 2023 | –– |
| Cassidy III, Vincent DePaul | 2023 | –– |
| Castro, Francheska | 2023 | –– |
| Flanders, Gabrielle | 2022 | –– |
| Homsi, Maher | 2022 | –– |
| Konduri, Gayathri | 2023 | –– |
| Kothawar, Gayathri | 2023 | Westemorland |
| Lima, Clarissa | 2021 | –– |
| Pena Cotui, Nayrobi Maitelic | 2021 | Lui |
| Pottokaran, Jaicy | 2022 | Stark/ Patterson |
| Rowe, Joel | 2022 | Cotler |
| Ruzieh, Mohammed | 2022 | Kimel |
| Still, Megan | 2023 | –– |
| Weijer, Laurel Katerina | 2021 | Gurka |
Master of Public Health, Epidemiology Concentration
MPH
| Student | Cohort | Student | Cohort |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson, Emma | 2024 | Joseph, Amanda | 2023 |
| Bryan, LaShaun | 2023 | Jury, Hannah | 2023 |
| Butler, Audrey | 2023 | King, Ansley | 2023 |
| Cashman, Alexandria | 2024 | Lima Bornas, Veronica | 2023 |
| Chavez, Daisy | 2024 | Lopez Limas, Arimar | 2023 |
| Chen, Xiaobei | 2024 | Majumder, Joyesree | 2024 |
| Daniels, Jadelyn | 2024 | Maybank, Mya | 2024 |
| Das, Alisha | 2024 | McCann, Allanah | 2023 |
| DeMott, Julia | 2023 | McKean, Jordan | 2023 |
| El-Rady, Tony | 2024 | Murrill, Paige | 2023 |
| Escobar, Kaylinn | 2023 | Onteddu, Jayabharath | 2023 |
| Feigenbaum, Jake | 2024 | Pastore, Mia | 2023 |
| Flores, Margaret | 2024 | Pinni, Pritham | 2023 |
| Formet, Emma | 2024 | Rodriguez, Amy | 2023 |
| Garcia, Gretel | 2024 | Sanchez, Priscilla | 2023 |
| Garst, Anna | 2024 | Silberman, Anna | 2023 |
| Gaskins, Shaveka | 2024 | StahlSierra | 2023 |
| Gonzalez, Sofia | 2024 | Teresi, Elizabeth | 2023 |
| Grissett, Katherine | 2024 | Uddeen, Aleeyah | 2024 |
| Harpe, Aidan | 2024 | Wilson-McCoy, Vincent | 2023 |
| Hauser, Emilee | 2024 | Zarin, Raisa | 2024 |
| Johnson, Mitchell | 2024 | –– | –– |