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PhD Students

PhD Candidates

PhD Students

Recent PhD Graduates

• Rachel Garg

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• Health communication; health equity; integrating health and social services

• Akilah Collins-Anderson

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Health inequities; community engagement; health education; and dissemination & implementation science

• Merriah Croston

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Health behavior change interventions; Applied health communications and social marketing research

• Emily Evers

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Maternal and child health; health behavior change; health education; peer support; international development

• Tyler Frank

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Mental health, neuroepidemiology, dissemination and implementation science, health disparities

• Raul D. Gierbolini-Rivera

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Health Disparities, Health Equity, Physical Activity among Latin American populations, Dissemination/Implementation science

• Amanda Gilbert

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Built environment; Nutrition; Physical activity

• Kate Hoppe

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Social and environmental determinants of historically divested communities and populations; Overturning structural and systemic barriers to health and health equity; Community resilience

• Hannah Kinzer

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Advancing health equity and communication in disease surveillance

• Joshua Kiyingi

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Global health, maternal and child health

• Samuel Kizito

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Design, implementation and evaluation of interventions to improve outcomes among adolescents living with HIV

• F. Hunter McGuire

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Sexuality; Eating disorders; Mental health; Health disparities

• Anthony J. Nixon Jr.

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Social epidemiology; maternal and child health; reproductive justice; fatherhood; health equity; perinatal epidemiology; Black men’s health

• Alicia Persaud

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Childhood Obesity, Social Determinants of Health, Health Literacy, Nutrition, Nutrition Standards in Schools, Parental Modeling, Food Insecurity, Undernutrition, Eating Disorders

• Eugen Resendiz Bontrud

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Urban Health, Physical Activity and its relationship to the Built Environment in urban settings, Health disparities in LMICs and Urban Policy for Health

• Karen Skinner

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Health communication, social determinants of health, implementation science, health outcomes

• Nicole Strombom

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Health care disparities, health equity, women’s health, and maternal health issues

• Jessica Thein

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, Computational Methodologies, Machine Learning, System Dynamics, Social Networks, Network Analysis

• Luissa Vahedi

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Gender based violence in emergencies

• Mia Vogel

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Applying systems science to dissemination, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based programs and policies to improve population health and health system performance

• Najjuwah Walden

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• STI surveillance and care coordination

• Callie Walsh-Bailey

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Social determinants of health, dissemination and implementation science, chronic disease prevention

• Jordyn Wartts

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Health of minority populations

• Olivia Weng

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
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• Chronic Disease Prevention; Healthy Behavior Change; Health Communication; Health Education; Data Visualization; Mixed Method Research

• Jacob Eaton

• Senior Associate, Iris Group
• PhD in Public Health Sciences
• Graduated 2020

• Karishma Furtado

• Research and Data Analyst, Forward Through Ferguson
• PhD in Public Health Sciences
• Graduated 2020

• Sara Malone

• Instructor & St. Jude's Collaborator, WUSM
• PhD in Public Health Sciences
• Graduated May 2022

• Meagan Pilar

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
• Graduated 2021

• Natalicio Serrano

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
• Graduated 2021

• Xiaoyan Wang

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
• Graduated

• Roger Wong

• PhD in Public Health Sciences
• Graduated 2020

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