Sunday, May 29, 2022

Providence, Rhode Island

Undergraduate Concentration in Public Health

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors:
Patricia Risica DrPH

Concentration Advisors:
Jasjit S. Ahluwalia M.D., MPH, M.S.; Tayla von Ash Sc.D., MPH;
John P. Fulton Ph.D.; William Goedel Ph.D.; Karl Kelsey M.D., MOH;
David Meyers Ph.D., MPH; Jennifer Pellowski Ph.D.; Ian Saldanha MBBS, MPH, Ph.D.;
and Nisha Trivedi M.D., MPH

A.B. Public Health

† Departmental Honors
* December 2022 Graduates

Undergraduate Concentration in Statistics

Director, Undergraduate Statistics Concentration:
Roee Gutman Ph.D.

Sc.B. Statistics

Tova Lilia Pieternella Ibbotson
Michelle Liu
Joseph Vayalumkal
Jessica Hao Wang

Graduate Program in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences

Department Chair:
Christopher Kahler Ph.D.

Ph.D. Behavioral and Social Health Sciences

Holly Kristin Boyle

“Simultaneous Alcohol and Cannabis Use among Young Adults: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Determinants, Mechanisms, and Consequences”
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Merrill

Teresa DeAtley

“Mechanisms Underlying High Rates of Tobacco-Related Disease in People with Psychiatric Disorders Who Smoke”
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Tidey

Kira Rose DiClemente

“Mental Health of Women Exposed to War and Violence in Africa: A Community-Based Approach”
Dissertation Chair: Abigail Harrison

Ashley Gomez Cuevas

“Work, Migration, Gender, and Place: Social Determinants of Latine Health in the United States”
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Nazareno

Sc.M. Behavioral and Social Health Sciences

Rachel Mealy
Tonya Sanchez

Graduate Program in Biostatistics

Director, Biostatistics Master’s Programs:
Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou Ph.D.

Interim Director, Biostatistics Doctoral Program:
Christopher Schmid Ph.D.

Ph.D. Biostatistics

Bing Li

“Generalizing the Area under the ROC Curve to a New Target Population”
Dissertation Chairs: Jon Steingrimsson, Constantine Gatsonis

Kun Meng

“Manifold Learning, Topological Data Analysis, and Their Applications to Medical Imaging”
Dissertation Chair: Ani Eloyan

Samantha Morrison

“On the Evaluation of Detection and Prediction Performance of Machine Learning Models, With Applications to Medical Imaging Data”
Dissertation Chair: Constantine Gatsonis

A.M. Biostatistics

Nicholas Pellegrino

Sc.M. Biostatistics

Fandi Chang
Tobias Paul DeKara
Yi Ding
Tingyi Li
Xiao (Lewis) Liu
Yezhi Pan
Allison Nicole Quintana
Whitney Su
Yanyu Tao
Joanna Walsh
Jasmine Xuenan Wang
Lin Feng Zou

Doctoral Program in Epidemiology

Director:
Chanelle Howe Ph.D.

Ph.D. Epidemiology

Christopher V. Barry

“Mechanistic Pathways of Prenatal Ethanol Exposure and Growth Delay in Early Childhood: The Role of Placental Disruption and IGF-1 Signaling at the Maternal-Fetal Interface”
Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Friedman

Jason R. Gantenberg

“Using Agent-Based Models to Understand the Epidemiology of Gonorrhea among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States”
Dissertation Chair: Mark Lurie

Alexandria Macmadu

“Examining The Impact of Nonfatal and Fatal Overdose in Social Networks on Individual Overdose Risk”
Dissertation Chair: Brandon Marshall

Marisa Ann Patti

“Impact of Gestational Arsenic Exposure and Maternal Folate Status on Child Health: A Phenome Approach”
Dissertation Chair: Joseph Braun

Julie Skarha

“An Overlooked Crisis: Temperature-Related Mortality among Incarcerated Populations in the United States”
Dissertation Chair: David Savitz

Anna Wentz

“Long-Term Pain and Opioid Analgesic Use in a Cohort of Emergency Department Patients with Suspected Urolithiasis in the STONE Trial”
Dissertation Chair: Roland Merchant

Doctoral Program in Health Services Research

Director:
Omar Galárraga Ph.D.

Ph.D. Health Services Research

Elliott Andrew Bosco, PharmD

“Use and Outcomes of Opioid and Nonopioid Analgesics Following Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in Older Adults”
Dissertation Chair: Andrew Zullo

Catherine K. Ettman

“More Than the Money: How Assets and Stressors Shape Depression”
Dissertation Chair: Patrick Vivier

Kevin Hoang Nguyen

“Equity in Enrollment, Access, and Experience of Care in the Health Care Safety Net”
Dissertation Chair: Amal Trivedi

Sarah Robertson

“Causal Inferences of Using Diverse Sources of Data”
Dissertation Chair: Issa Dahabreh

Rebecca Thorsness

“Equity in Policy and Care Delivery for People with Kidney Disease”
Dissertation Chair: Amal Trivedi

Master of Science in Global Health

Director:
Abigail D. Harrison Ph.D., MPH

Sc.M. Global Health

Haley Vaughn Adrian
Maria Isabel Diaz
Hayley Lynn Worsham

Graduate Programs in Clinical and Translational Research

MPH Director:
Annie Gjelsvik Ph.D.

Sc.M. Clinical and Translational Research

Silvia Chiang M.D.
Adeel A. Abbasi M.D.

Certificate Clinical and Translational Research

Mary Ann De Banate M.D.

Master of Public Health

Director:
Annie Gjelsvik Ph.D.

† MPH-MPA

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