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Margaux Grivel
Margaux Grivel is a doctoral student in the Social Behavioral Sciences track. Immigrating to the U.S. from Brignoles, France, as the second-oldest sibling of five, Margaux’s background has fostered exceptional openness to, and captivation with, others' backgrounds, sensitivities, experiences, and perspectives. During her undergraduate and post-bac development at the University of Maryland, Margaux managed numerous projects for Dr. Derek Iwamoto including one longitudinal study focused on identifying distinct alcohol use trajectories among young adults, and examining sociocultural predictors of latent class membership. During her time at Teachers College, Columbia University, in the Clinical Psychology MA program, Margaux completed a clinical placement at the Center for Prevention and Evaluation, one of few clinics worldwide that treats individuals with Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome, and had the opportunity to examine the relationship between history of trauma, clinical presentation, and transition to full psychosis in this population. Concurrently, Margaux worked with Dr. Lawrence Yang in the Global Mental Health, Psychosis, and Stigma lab and worked on a meta-analysis examining cognition in drug-naïve schizophrenia in collaboration with the late Dr. Larry Seidman (Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry) which has led to an R01 grant from NIMH (PI’s: Yang, Phillips, Keshevan), and a review of substance use stigma in collaboration with Dr. Deborah Hasin (Columbia University). Dr. Yang's exemplary work in identifying cultural variations in mental illness stigma and intervening with stigma, in addition to the program’s commitment to identifying the underlying social, behavioral and structural factors that contribute to health disparities motivated Margaux to continue her work with Dr. Yang here at CGPH.
Jacqueline Litvak
Jacqueline (Jackie) is a doctoral student in public health concentrating in Epidemiology. She is a born and raised Jersey girl who has always dreamed of living in New York City. Jackie received her bachelors of science degree in Neuroscience from Union College, a M.S. in Human Nutrition from Columbia University, and a MPH in Chronic Degree Epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health. Her research interests focus on the intersection of maternal and child health and nutritional epidemiology. After receiving her PhD, Jackie hopes to pursue a career in academia.
Kelley Akiya
Kelley Akiya is a doctoral student at the School of Global Public Health, concentrating in Health Policy and Management. Her research interests include social determinants of health and the integration of social services and health care to address health disparities. Before enrolling in NYU, she earned a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas Austin and a BA in Psychology and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis. Additionally, she worked as a program evaluator for 8 years, studying U.S-based and international interventions aimed at improving health, employment, and education outcomes.
Gawon Cho
Gawon Cho is a PhD student in Public Health at New York University concentrating in Social-Behavioral Sciences. She is primarily interested in the following two topics: (1) identifying occupational factors associated with the risk of cognitive decline later in life by applying statistical methods based on the life course theories and (2) disparities in pain medication use associated with obesity. She is especially interested in applying statistical methods based on life course theories (e.g., sequence analysis) to studying chronic comorbidities later in life. Her mentor at NYU is Dr. Virginia Chang. Before joining the GPH community at NYU, she obtained a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Business at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. She also studied Health Psychology in a graduate program at SUNY-Stony Brook for a year.
Shelby Brewer
Shelby is a doctoral student in the Public Health PhD program at the New York University School of Global Public Health, with a concentration in Health Policy and Management. She received her Bachelors of Science degree with Honors in Allied Health Sciences (Pre-Med) from University of Connecticut. Shelby received her Masters of Science degree with honors in Health Promotion from the University of Connecticut. Her primary research interest is the impact of policy on the overall health status among underserved and vulnerable populations.
Daniel Hagen
Daniel Hagen is a doctoral student in the Epidemiology track of the PhD program in Public Health at NYU’s School of Global Public Health. His main interests are in the epidemiology and etiology of common psychiatric disorders, with a focus on health disparities, global mental health, and internationally comparative research. Daniel studied political science and sociology at the Universities of Mannheim, Bonn, and Copenhagen before majoring in Epidemiology in the International MPH program at the French School of Public Health (EHESP) in Paris. Amongst other things, he has worked on the effects of stigma and institutionalized discrimination on minority health in different settings, with experience in LGBT health research at the World Bank and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. More recently, he worked in project and science management for the funding initiative “Research Networks for Health Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa” implemented by the German development agency GIZ in Berlin. Prior to that, he was a research assistant at the University of Bonn and a volunteer with the Regional Office for Africa of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Nairobi.
Bridget Murphy
Bridget Murphy is a doctoral student in NYU’s School of Global Public Health’s epidemiology concentration. She is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator, completing her dietetic internship at Harvard University’s Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA, earning a M.S. in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics from NYU. Bridget has previous work experience in outpatient hospital settings both at NYU and New York Presbyterian hospital. More recently Bridget has worked with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU with families of children and adolescents with disordered eating patterns. Her research interests include nutrition, obesity, chronic disease, and wellness.
Brooke Wiles
Brooke Wiles joined the GPH doctoral program in 2018 in the Epidemiology track. They graduated first in their class at Mary Baldwin University, where they earned a BS in Biology. Brooke received their MPH from NYU, during which they studied in Accra, Ghana and Florence, Italy while gaining hands-on experience regarding the health and human rights concerns of migrant populations. They graduated first in their MPH class and are also a member of NYU’s chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Society. Their primary research interests include substance use, sexually transmitted infections, and syndemics among socially marginalized populations, namely homeless youth and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Mahathi Vojjala
Mahathi Vojjala is a doctoral student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences track. She is a 2017 MPH graduate from New York University School of Global Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology. Prior to her MPH, Mahathi received a B.A. in religion and public health from Rutgers University. She has been working at the Tobacco Research Lab (TRL) since 2015; Mahathi started as a Research Assistant and was then promoted to Research Lab Manager. After receiving her MPH in 2017, she joined the Tobacco Research Lab full-time as a Junior Research Scientist and Research Coordinator working with Dr. David Abrams and Dr. Ray Niaura. Mahathi’s previous research focused on youth smoking initiation and media advertising, dual and poly use of substances specifically marijuana and cigarettes among young adults, media portrayal of alcohol and tobacco in movie trailers and youth smoking rates, and more recently, use of oral analgesics combined with marijuana, alcohol, and cigarettes among people with chronic pain. Mahathi is primarily interested in research examining alcohol use among youth, and policies and regulations of flavored alcohol products.
Shahmir Ali
Shahmir Ali is a doctoral student in NYU’s School of Global Public Health’s social and behavioral sciences concentration. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in public health studies and political science. Prior to joining NYU, much of his research work as an undergraduate Woodrow Wilson research fellow and research assistant with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health involved mixed-method observational and interventional studies on diet, behavior, and community health in Baltimore city corner stores, food pantries, grocery stores, and religious institutions. He plans to build on this work at NYU by exploring behavioral and cultural characteristics of diet and non-communicable disease disparities among Asian communities. He has also collaborated in projects with the George Institute for Global Health (China), the University of Queensland School of Public Health (Australia), and the Griffith University Centre for Environment and Population Health (Australia). Shahmir’s past research and publications have spanned work in the US, China, Australia, and Pakistan on topics ranging from mhealth, salt reduction, workplace health promotion, housing and environmental health, trauma and injury, water management and sanitation, and social determinants of health.
Avni Gupta
Avni Gupta is a doctoral student at New York University’s School of Global Public Health in the Health Policy and Management concentration. She received her dental surgery training from Government Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur, India and her Master’s in Public Health (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), Baltimore, USA. Prior to joining PhD at NYU, Avni worked as a Research Scientist for four years at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Center for Surgery and Public Health (joint collaboration of Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.N. Chan School of Public Health) in Boston. Her previous work experiences include dental surgery clinical practice, UNICEF, Save the Children and International Vaccine Access Center at JHSPH. Her research focuses on evaluating and promoting health equity, healthcare quality, healthcare data management, value-based healthcare as well as the integration and coordination of healthcare services, with a focus on primary and preventive care in diverse healthcare settings, both domestically and globally.
Abbey Jones
Abbey Jones is a doctoral student in the Epidemiology track. Prior to enrolling at NYU, Abbey worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of Congenital and Developmental Disorders for eight years, including 18 months working in the CDC’s Emergency Operations Center for the 2016 Zika Virus Response. Abbey has an MPH in Global Epidemiology from Emory University and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from College of the Holy Cross. She has experience in the fields of public health surveillance, preparedness and response, infectious disease, and maternal and child health.
Vivian Wang
Vivian Wang is a doctoral student at the Department of Public Health Policy and Management. She is a registered dietitian with research experience in childhood obesity and other diet-related non-communicable diseases worldwide. Vivian holds an M.S. in Nutrition Science from SUNY at Buffalo and an M.P.A. in Health Policy and Management from NYU Wagner. Her research seeks to identify the role of social determinants of health in the health care system. She is particularly interested in drawing methods and theories from different disciplines to inform policy decisions. An amateur cook, Vivian rarely follows recipes and thoroughly enjoys culinary art as an agent to connect with self and others.
Erica Wood
Erica Wood is a doctoral student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences track at New York University’s School of Global Public Health. Erica received her B.S. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. In 2017, she graduated with her MPH in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University where she became interested in intersectionality and minority stress theory. Erica began working for NYU GPH as a Junior Research Scientist in 2016 for Dr. Stephanie Cook’s Attachment and Health Disparities Lab. Erica continues to work with Dr. Cook on projects examining intersections of different forms of minority stress (e.g., sexual orientation-related discrimination and/or racial/ethnic-related discrimination) and mental and physical health outcomes among sexual minority men of color. Erica’s primary research interests include examining pathways of risk and resilience among racially/ethnically diverse populations of sexual and gender minorities across the life-course.
Yuan Zhao
Yuan Zhao is a doctoral student concentrating in Epidemiology. She is interested in understanding infectious disease prevention and transmission using agent-based modeling and causal inference. Originally from China, she holds a BS in biology from Peking University, a MHS of epidemiology from Johns Hopkins and MPH of biostatistics from Emory University. Her previous research mainly focused on modeling STI and HIV prevention among MSM and treatment of multidrug resistant TB using targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE). She hopes to use statistical and computational approaches to study infectious disease dynamics.
Zoé Haskell-Craig
Zoé Haskell-Craig is a PhD student in the biostatistic concentration at New York University’s School of Global Public Health. Her research focus is in spatial statistics and health disparities. In particular, she is looking at the differences in disease prevalence between neighbourhoods and race, socioeconomic, and geographic factors. Currently, she is working with Dr. Melody Goodman in the Measurement, Learning and Evaluation lab. She is also interested in infectious disease dynamics and vaccine delivery strategies. Zoé grew up outside of Toronto, Canada and attended Carnegie Mellon University where she received a B.Sc. in Physics and a B.A. in Social and Political History in 2020. Her previous research focused on building a publicly available database of historic mortality rates from London, England, dating back to the 1660s. Using this data, as well as newspaper archives, she analyzed the response to the 1874 scarlet fever outbreak in London in the context of the public health revolution of the 1800s. Beyond public health, Zoé is also passionate about education and social justice. She spent a semester in Kenya evaluating the long-term sustainability of NGO water, sanitation, and hygiene initiatives and worked for two summers on a literacy program for First Nations youth in Northern Ontario.
Sooyoung Kim
Sooyoung Kim is a doctoral student in the Health Policy and Management track. She was born and raised in South Korea where she studied Biology as an undergraduate at POSTECH. After working for 4 years in the private sector, she joined the MPH program in French School of Public Health (EHESP) where she developed her interest in economic evaluation of health policies and programs. She has worked in both academic settings and under the United Nations system. Before joining NYU, she worked in the World Health Organization's Health Emergency Programme (WHE) for two years, working on the response to several major outbreaks, including Ebola virus disease, Malaria, and COVID-19. She is interested in exploring how to better respond to infectious disease outbreaks by combining different quantitative methodologies such as mathematical modelling of infectious disease dynamics and economic modelling of the cost-effectiveness of the response operations.
Zoe Lindenfeld
Zoe Lindenfeld is a doctoral student in the Public Health PhD program at the New York University School of Global Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Management. She received her BS in Biology and Society from Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2017. She spent two years as a research associate at John Snow Inc. conducting research related to health care delivery and payment reform. Her research interests include value-based payment models and behavioral health, with a particular focus on substance use disorders.
Yuyu(Ruby) Chen
Yuyu(Ruby) Chen is a doctoral student at NYU School of Global Public Health specializing in Biostatistics. She received a B.A. in Biochemistry and a minor in Mathematics at Occidental College. After that, she joined NYU GPH and obtained M.S. in Biostatistics. She was involved in multiple collaborative projects and consulting tasks, including Bayesian Adaptive Platform clinical trials, meta-analysis, machine learning and several longitudinal/cohort studies during her time at NYU. She also worked on opioid overdose behavior with measurement development at the Center of Drug and HIV/HCV Research and Measurement, Learning and Evaluation Lab. She is interested in using data to address public health issues and find optimal clinical solutions with statistical approaches.
Jasmin Choi
Jasmin Choi is a PhD student in Social and Behavioral Sciences track at NYU’s School of Global Public Health. Jasmin is passionate about promoting and sustaining health equity by implementing and evaluating evidence-based policies and services. She is specifically interested in exploring harm reduction approaches to mitigate the effect of stigma and address barriers to healthcare access for individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. Previously, she worked as a federal policy analyst and coordinator for Massachusetts’ Medicaid program. She also worked at Boston University School of Public Health focusing on substance use and HIV research. She received a BA in Chemistry from University of California, Riverside and a dual-degree Master’s in Social Work (MSW) in group therapy work specialization and Master’s in Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Boston University. As a first-generation low-income student, her career goal is to utilize research to empower communities.
Sarah Kimball
Sarah Kimball is a doctoral student concentrating in epidemiology at New York University School of Global Public Health. Born and raised in the Boston area, she received her BS in Human Physiology from Boston University before moving to New York City to complete her MPH from Columbia University. She spent three years as a Program Developer at BronxWorks where she worked with an array of programs, including family shelters, safe havens, street outreach, supportive housing, and eviction prevention. During this time, she gained invaluable experience writing grants and managing several research projects. Her research interests include substance use, infectious disease, and health equity. In her free time, she enjoys running and going to the park with her dog.
Kathleen Lynch
Katie Lynch is a doctoral student in Social and Behavioral Sciences at New York University’s School of Global Public Health. Katie holds a BA in History and Anthropology from the University of Connecticut, a MS in Medical Anthropology from the Boston University School of Medicine, and an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from NYU. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Katie was the Qualitative Methods Specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where her role was to provide consultation, training, and advisement to investigators interested in incorporating qualitative methods into their grants and protocols. Katie’s research utilizes qualitative, mixed-methods, and community-based approaches and she has collaborated on numerous NIH and philanthropic foundation awards in NYC and internationally. Her research interests include examining how the local environment and sense of place influence community health, behavior, and risk perception, particularly regarding cancer-related outcomes. Outside of research, Katie coaches taekwondo and also competes at the local and national level.
Elizabeth McNeill
Elizabeth McNeill is a doctoral student concentrating in Health Policy and Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. Elizabeth holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Business Administration from Roberts Wesleyan College and an MPH with a concentration in public health policy from NYU GPH, where she worked as a Research Assistant for faculty in the Department of Public Health Policy and Management. Her time working in nonprofit administration, primary care, and public health communication settings revealed the gaps in the public health system that must be addressed, and inspired her to continue in public health research. Elizabeth’s previous research includes vaccine hesitancy and the integration of social services with health care delivery. She is interested in applying implementation science and health services research to strengthen public health initiatives.
Brandi Moore
Brandi Moore is a doctoral student in the Epidemiology track. She received her BA in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard College where she completed an undergraduate thesis focused on exploring the impact of several polyphenol-rich foods on the composition of the gut microbiome. During this time she also worked at the college’s Women’s Center where she facilitated workshops on gender theory and allyship while additionally serving as the director for an undergraduate sexual health peer-education group. In 2021, she received her MPH in the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health. There, she worked on several research projects including one which examined the relationship between community supervision, housing stability, and engagement in sexual behaviors that could impact HIV risk. Her master’s thesis involved the design and execution of a study based in Thailand which explored Thai physicians’ opinions on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention and their willingness to prescribe it to different populations of patients. Currently, her broad research interests continue to focus on the ways that socio-structural factors may impact infectious disease risk for marginalized populations and how these factors may either impede or facilitate access to health promoting resources such as harm reduction interventions.
Dina Zein
Dina Zein is a doctoral student in the Health Policy and Management track. She earned her BA in Sociology with a concentration in Science and Medicine at University of California, San Diego and Master of Health Administration at University of Southern California. After her MHA, she worked as a Project Specialist at USC Schaeffer Center where she developed her interest in behavioral interventions in opioid prescribing and emergency medicine. Before joining NYU, she worked in Kuwait as a Teaching Assistant and Researcher at Kuwait University. Her primary research interests are in implementation science, behavioral economics and decision-making in healthcare. When she's not studying, she's an aerial yoga enthusiast.
Josepha (Epa) Cabrera
Josepha (Epa) Cabrera is a doctoral student studying in the Social and Behavioral Sciences concentration. Epa was born and raised in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, and moved to Virginia where she graduated with her BA in Finance and Economics at Hollins University. Before enrolling at NYU, she received her MPH with a Global Health concentration from Brown University School of Public Health. While studying public health at Brown University, Epa was a health equity population medicine research assistant for Integra Community Care and a seasonal public health epidemiologist with the oral health program at the Rhode Island Department of Health. Her main research interests include non-communicable chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease disparities among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI). Epa plans to disaggregate Asian and NHPI data to explore sociodemographic-related behavioral and cultural characteristics that impact health risks and unmet needs in smaller NHPI communities.
Ugonnaya Caleb-Ugwuowo
Ugonnaya (Ugo) is a doctoral student in the Epidemiology concentration. Ugo's research interests are in psychiatric, mental health epidemiology, and stigma. She aims to identify and assess determinants of mental health outcomes across various sub-populations globally. Born and raised in Nigeria, she obtained her medical degree from Nigeria and her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Essex, Colchester, England. After her postgraduate degree, she completed a six-year medical residency program in Lagos, Nigeria in Public Health and Community Medicine. She is a board-certified fellow of the West African College of Physicians and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.Ugo has over a decade of experience working in the field of public health in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is bilingual.
Karen Choe
Karen Choe is a doctoral student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences concentration. After receiving her BA in Psychology at NYU, she worked closely with physicians on practice transformation and value-based initiatives to reduce health disparities in underserved communities. She then received her EdM in Mental Health Counseling and MA in Counseling Psychology at Columbia University, which led to her role as a multicultural therapist at Henry Street Settlement for low-income individuals and families. Concurrently, she worked with Dr. Lawrence Yang as the former manager of the Culture Stigma Psychosis Lab on NIH/NIMH R01 projects, researching cultural variations in stigma, how stigma acts to impede social recovery and influence health outcomes of various mental/physical health conditions (e.g., schizophrenia, opioid use disorder, HIV, cancer), and culturally-responsive interventions. She is particularly interested in the role of stigma in co-occurring psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, and chronic pain. Grounded by her clinical experiences, Karen aims to instill long-term changes in the way people understand and cope with their pain and disabling conditions.
Michael Cziner
Michael Cziner is a doctoral student in Epidemiology concentration. He has worked in a variety of public health settings focusing primarily on infectious diseases. After receiving his BA from NYU, Michael served as a Clinical Data Assistant in the Infection Prevention and Control Department at NYU Langone Health. He then received his MPH in Epidemiology from George Washington University where he worked as Graduate Research Assistant for the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center. Before returning to NYU for his PhD, Michael worked as a federal contractor, serving first as an Epidemiologist Investigator in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Medical Branch and then as an Epidemiologist and Disease Portfolio Manager in the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Branch of the Department of Defense’s Armed Force Health Surveillance Division. Michael is interested in researching social, behavioral, and ecological impacts on pandemics, emerging infectious diseases, and zoonoses.
Julie Holm
Julie Holm is a doctoral student concentrating in Health Policy and Management. She earned her BS in Health Information Management and Master of Business Administration from Idaho’s Boise State University, where she is originally from. Prior to moving to New York City, Julie managed a team of analysts at a large clinically-integrated network where she focused on data analytics related to improving quality and cost outcomes for both government and private insurance contracts. Julie is interested in healthcare reform, cost-effectiveness and equity in health insurance coverage. Outside of studying, Julie enjoys endurance sports.
Supriya Kapur
Supriya Kapur is a doctoral student in the Public Health Policy and Management department. She holds a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University’s College of Engineering and an MS in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her primary research interests include data driven approaches for informing public policy and AI ethics.
Mehrdad Khezri
Mehrdad Khezri is a doctoral student in the Epidemiology concentration. Born and raised in Iran, Mehrdad received his MS in Public Health Nursing and BS in Nursing from the Kerman University of Medical Sciences. His research focuses on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, including HIV and HCV, substance use epidemiology, and harm reduction research to improve the health and well-being of marginalized populations. Before joining NYU, Mehrdad was an epidemiology project manager at the WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance (HIVHUB) in the Middle East and North Africa. He was engaged in designing and implementing several national studies on HIV and substance use among people who inject drugs, female sex workers, youth experiencing homelessness, and incarcerated people in Iran. More recently, he worked as the project manager for two national HIV bio-behavioral surveillance surveys among men who have sex with men and transgender people in Iran.
Taehyo Kim
Taehyo Kim is a doctoral student at NYU School of Global Public Health specializing in Biostatistics. He received B.A.Sc in computer engineering at University of Toronto, and M.S. in computer science at NYU Courant. His research interests include high dimensional data analysis and machine/deep learning. Currently, he is working on topics including medical image analysis for Alzheimer's disease, survival analysis, and multi-modal data analysis. Outside of research, he can potentially be found at various tennis courts.
Lingzi Luo
Lingzi Luo is an intervention scientist and a doctoral student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences concentration. Her research interests are broadly in leveraging intervention optimization and implementation science methods to improve routine social and health services for vulnerable populations, especially those with chronic illnesses or mental health challenges. The ultimate goal of her research is to build learning service systems that are person-centered, efficient, and equitable. She had practice exposure in diverse settings such as community mental health centers, psychiatric inpatient units, non-profit organizations, local governments, and the World Health Organization headquarters. Prior to joining NYU, she worked for several years at Washington University School of Medicine on a national implementation science consortium to improve care for patients with sickle cell disease. Lingzi holds a B.S. in Psychology from Wuhan University and a dual-degree Master's in Social Work and Master's in Public Health with an individualized concentration in Integrated Health for Disadvantaged Populations from Washington University in St. Louis.
Kaitlyn Parrotte
Katie Parrotte is a doctoral student concentrating in epidemiology at New York University’s School of Global Public Health. Katie holds a BS in Clinical Health Studies and a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Ithaca College, and an MS in Epidemiology from Columbia University. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Katie worked as a clinical director and physical therapist in an NYC-based outpatient clinic, where she managed clinic operations and specialized in treating patients with various orthopedic and pelvic health conditions. Her research interests include exploring disparities in health and access to care.
Jianan Zhu
Jianan(Zoe) Zhu is a doctoral student in the Biostatistics concentration. She is originally from China where she received a Bachelor of Medicine degree in Preventive Medicine at Nantong University in 2020. After that, she continued her master's study in Biostatistics at GPH. Her previous research is mainly focused on developing and applying machine learning methods in public health data analysis. Currently, she is working with Dr. Siyu Heng on causal inference. She is interested in observational studies, randomized trails, sensitivity analysis, instrumental variables, and their applications in health policy research, infectious disease research, and social sciences. In the future, she hopes to use machine learning methos in the following research of causal inference.