Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center graduate student affiliates Muqi Guo and Dena Javadi on being named the recipients of the Dillon Family Fellowship Award. This long-standing monetary award was created to benefit graduate students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Muqi Guo is a PhD candidate in population health sciences in the Department of Global Health & Population. Her dissertation is entitled “Reproductive Health and Women’s Well-being at Older Ages” and her work explores a number of areas pertaining to women’s reproductive health over the life course, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, global health and aging, and social epidemiology. Muqi has a master’s degree in epidemiology from the Harvard Chan School, as well as a master’s in sociology from Peking University in China. She has been a research assistant for many years on our flagship study “Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies in South Africa (HAALSA).

Dena Javadi is a PhD candidate in population health sciences in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her dissertation is entitled “Work Related Health and Well-Being: An Asset-Based Approach.” Dena’s research areas include the political determinants of health, work-related well-being, and intersectoral approaches to enhancing population health. She holds an MSPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dena has been engaged for a number of years at the Harvard Pop Center, and has been supporting the “Work and Well-being Initiative,” particularly on the fulfillment center intervention study.