Rebecca is a doctoral candidate in Population Health Sciences studying reproductive epidemiology. Her current research interests are at the intersection of the built environment and sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice, particularly in regard to violence prevention and response and family planning. Her work aims to advance health equity and justice with an intersectional lens that is community-centered.
Ruchita is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology, advised by Dr. Bill Hanage. She graduated from Princeton University in 2019 with a degree in Molecular Biology and minors in Engineering Biology and Global Health and Health Policy, and additionally received an MPhil in Veterinary Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2021. Prior to coming…
Edgar Castro is a PhD student in the department of environmental health focused on studying disparities in exposure and susceptibility to air pollution, adverse temperatures, and other environmental and contextual exposures. Previously, Edgar received a BS in environmental engineering from Northeastern University.
Marissa Chan is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences within the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received her MS in Environmental Health from Harvard Chan and her BA in Urban and Environmental Policy from Occidental College. Her research interests and work experience focus on the intersection of place-based environmental hazards and product-based exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in personal care…
Laura Chen (she/her) is a Population Health Sciences PhD student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is a social epidemiologist passionate about studying how systems of power and oppression shape population health in the US in order to better advocate for health equity and social justice. Currently, her research interests surround social and racialized stressors across the life course and chronic disease inequities, particularly thinking about the…
Jen Cruz (she/her) is a Population Health Sciences PhD student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is passionate about the intersection of social epidemiology and social change — moving beyond the traditional framing of epidemiology and into action. Jen plans to work across disciplines to learn how we can best integrate epidemiological methods into community-based work and evidence-based policy development to address health inequities. Her research aims…
Ann Caroline Danielsen (she/her) is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work focuses on exploring the influences of the social world on biology, and in particular the work that gender does within interlocking systems of power and oppression to generate health advantage or disadvantage throughout the lifespan. Her goal is to…
Seetha H. Davis (she/her) is a Population Health Sciences doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a medical student at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on how social and societal adversities in childhood and adolescence shape health across the life course, particularly for immigrant and forcibly displaced populations. She is committed to action-driven research that aims to identify,…
Khondaker Mohammed Mohiuddin Ekram is a Population Health Sciences doctoral student at the Environmental Health department. His research interests involve exploring the nexus between the built environment and health outcomes, and the environmental justice issues arising from this interaction, especially in marginalized communities. He received his Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Tech, and his Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology…
Matlin Gilman is a Population Health Sciences PhD candidate at Harvard University. He has worked in a range of research settings, including the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, the United Hospital Fund, the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. He received his MPH in health and social behavior from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, his…
Jasmine D. Graves (she/her) is a public health researcher and social impact strategist committed to dismantling systems of oppression and rebuilding a world where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color thrive. A natural problem solver, Jasmine drove public policy for nearly ten years as a former Senior Policy Advisor to New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, Advisor to two New York City Health Commissioners, and Qualitative…
Sirad A. Hassan (she/her) is a Population Health Sciences doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to starting graduate school, Sirad earned her M.S. in Human Nutrition from Columbia University and her A.B. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, with minors in African American Studies, African Studies, Cognitive Science, and Global Health and Health Policy. Her…
Destiny A. Jackson (she/her) is a PhD student in the Population Health Sciences program based in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Through her work, she prioritizes evaluating and intervening on racial health inequities via social policy evaluation and translation, with an emphasis on intraracial differences in health outcomes and access to quality health care services by nativity, ethnicity, and degree…
Hana is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences within the Department of Epidemiology, focusing on Environmental Epidemiology. Prior to Harvard, she was an assistant epidemiologist at Emory Health Services Research Center where she worked on projects aiming to reduce racial disparities among kidney transplant candidates and recipients, and served on the data team for the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative. Her research interests include the intersection of…
Tabitha Lumour-Mensah (she/hers) is a first-year Population Health Sciences PhD student in the Harvard T.H. Chan Department of Environmental Health. She is concentrating in environmental epidemiology and her research interests center around how the epigenome can help us to understand the wide range of health effects associated with environmental exposures arising from inequity in water and housing quality. Tabitha is from Nungua, Ghana and grew up in New Jersey. She…
Erin McGuinness is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Clinical Social Worker. She has devoted her career to addressing community mental health issues, with a particular emphasis on trauma and immigration. Most recently, Erin worked as a Behavioral Health Services Clinical Supervisor at La Clinica de Familia, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in southern New Mexico. Erin…
Sam is a PhD student in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Their research interests focus on community engagement and communication to advance health equity. Their work is inspired by their background in media arts and media studies, as well as a desire to create more room for institutional support of populations experiencing health disparities in Chicago.
Soroush is a Population Health Sciences PhD student at Harvard studying social and spatial epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Broadly, Soroush’s research aims to advance equity-oriented public health scholarship and practice to support human rights through examinations of the impact of social and structural systems on health. For example, his recent research has examined the impact of COVID-19 on the risk of nonfatal overdose, during the…
Emily Newton-Hoe (she/her) is a Population Health Sciences doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research explores the social and structural determinants of reproductive and perinatal health inequities using a social epidemiologic and feminist science studies lens. She is particularly interested in the ways in which public policies engender inequities in the context of gender and health…
Chinyere Nwamuo is a first-year Ph.D. student in Social and Behavioral Sciences. She received her B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience and Biological Anthropology at Emory University and her M.P.H. in Health Management and Policy at Georgia State University. After receiving her M.P.H., Chinyere worked at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Child Fatality Review Unit and convened an interdisciplinary state-level child protection team for the prevention of child fatalities. She later led…
VinÃcius Prado is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences within the Global Health and Population Department. His research interests revolve around the interrelationships between health inequalities and sociodemographic factors with a specific focus on sexual and reproductive health, population dynamics, and social disparities. Vinicius is from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He received his BA in Social Sciences and his MA degree in Demography from the University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).…
Nikhil Rao (he/they) is a Health Policy PhD student at the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is a health services researcher whose research agenda centers the intersection of behavioral health care and structural racism. They are particularly passionate about investigating how area-level measures of racialized economic segregation are associated with mental health and substance use treatment access and quality. His other research interests include harm…
Taylor J. Robinson is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She studies spatial and social epidemiology, with the broad goal of spatially analyzing the causal and historical relationship between location-based factors and racial health disparities. Her work centers housing safety issues, chronic neighborhood disinvestment, and other forms of systemic racism as factors that exacerbate…
Artair Rogers is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health pursuing a PhD in Population Health Sciences. Prior to pursuing his PhD, Artair was the California Program Director for Health Leads, a national nonprofit focused on addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) in partnership with health systems, community-based organizations, and community members. Artair’s work focused on equitable SDOH…
Rienna Russo is a third-year PhD student in Epidemiology in the Cardiovascular Disease track. Her research focuses on examining and mitigating the drivers of cardiovascular health disparities. Prior to coming to Harvard, Rienna was the project coordinator of an agent-based modeling study examining food policies and CVD outcomes at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led a longitudinal evaluation of the food retail environment in New…
Sudipta Saha (he/him) is a first-year Population Health Sciences PhD student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. His current research interests are at the intersection of social epidemiologic theories and infectious disease models. He is particularly interested in treating racial capitalism as a fundamental cause of health inequities, and using novel quantitative methods to understand/illustrate how broader political-economic forces shape such inequities. Sudipta was raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh.…
Michelle Sodipo is a third-year Population Health Sciences Ph.D student in the Department of Epidemiology with a focus in cancer epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received her B.S in Biology and Community Health from Tufts University, and her MPH in Chronic Diseases from Yale School of Public Health. Previously, Michelle’s work has centered on conducting research to explore ways to improve health-related quality of…
Kieran P. Todd (they/them) is a first-year Population Health Sciences doctoral student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Their work and research focus on addressing structural factors, primarily racism and sexism, that influence masculine identity development and subsequent health outcomes. Kieran’s prior work examined how transmasculine individuals developed and reimagined their masculinity across the life course related to smoking…
Mai-Han is a second-year doctoral student in neuropsychiatric epidemiology. Mai-Han’s research interests focus on LGBTQ mental health and particularly health equity for transgender populations.
Joseph Wilson, Jr. is a first-year Ph.D. student in Environmental Health. His research interests center around children’s health, housing inequality, community-based public health, and environmental justice. He received his B.A in Psychology and Public Health from Williams College and Master’s of Health Science (M.H.S.) in Environmental Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to coming to Harvard, Joseph worked as a program coordinator for the Region…
Jessica is a Population Health Sciences doctoral student in the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to joining the department, she obtained an MPH in Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences from Emory University, and a BA in Public Health and Sociology from UC Berkeley. Her research interests include cancer disparities, health equity, social determinants of health and the intersection of…
Dougie Zubizarreta (he/they) is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They are a social epidemiologist whose research examines structural and social determinants of health inequities in relation to intersecting social positions and systems of power and oppression. Dougie received their MS in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and…
