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Momi Afelin
Momi is pursuing a Master of Public Health degree in Nutrition with a concentration in planetary health. Originally from Hawai’i, she is interested in both marine and terrestrial food systems in island communities. She has previously worked as a community engagement specialist in traditional food systems restoration projects and a land back initiative. Her project will draw on her academic and professional experiences to characterize the role of subsistence practices…
Janae Briggs
Janae Briggs is a first-year, Master of Science student in the Department of Epidemiology. Her research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, implementation science, and health systems strengthening. She hopes to work in the field of global health delivery to help reduce health inequities and meet the health needs of underserved communities in low-resource settings. For her project, Janae has partnered with The Family Van, a mobile clinic in Boston, to…
Devin Dattolico
Devin Dattolico is a MPH-65 candidate at the Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She graduated from Northeastern University in 2019 with a degree in psychology. After working in clinical research she was inspired to apply these skills to the broader lens of public health. She has an extensive research background with a passion for advancing health equity in communities. Devin…
Elise Hoffman
Elise is an MPH-65 student in Health and Social Behavior with a concentration in Health Communications. Elise’s research interests are in chronic disease prevention and treatment. She is particularly interested in leveraging qualitative research methods to advance understanding of patient and community barriers and assets in relation to health promoting behaviors. Elise’s project focuses on integrating chronic disease and cancer early detection messaging to improve outcomes and address disparities in…
Medha Iyer
Medha is a Master of Science student in the Global Health and Populations department. Medha has previous experience in health & benefits consulting and served as a 5th grade teacher in south Dallas through AmeriCorps prior to starting graduate school. Throughout her first year at Harvard, Medha has been a graduate research assistant at the Center on the Developing Child, working alongside the Aspen Institute to determine opportunity gaps for…
Artista Jhanjee
Arista Jhanjee is an MPH-65 candidate in Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is primarily interested in global health, and is passionate about advancing community approaches to mental healthcare and expanding mental health service access within South Asia. Prior to enrolling in the MPH program, Arista provided administrative, operational, and communications support to various global health organizations and initiatives in San Francisco…
Diana L Juvinao-Quintero
Diana is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Epidemiology in the GRAPE multidisciplinary research and training team in global perinatal Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on identifying predictors of maternal mental health and adverse pregnancy outcomes, as well as evaluating how in-utero exposure to violence and distress affects the physical and mental health of the offspring. Diana works with data from a well-characterized prospective…
Addison Kimber
Addison Kimber is an MPH student in the department of Health Policy and Management with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. She is interested in the connection between adverse childhood events and chronic disease later in life, and aims to create policies to improve the lives of children and families through reducing the effects of structural inequality. She is also interested in understanding how we can streamline program creation…
Valencia Lambert
Valencia is a native of Tanzania. Currently, she is a first-year Master of Science student in Global Health and Population department. Her research interests are women’s health and infectious disease epidemiology. In the future, she hopes to contribute to improving the health outcomes of populations in sub-Saharan Africa by employing a concentrated effort that tackles the social determinants of health and implements novel interventions based on epidemiological evidence. Valencia Lambert’s…
Khristopher Nicholas
Khristopher is an interdisciplinary food systems researcher interested in how human experiences and behaviors affect environment-health relationships. Currently a Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow and originally from Trinidad and Tobago, he is especially passionate about planetary health in island ecosystems. Ultimately, he aims to create better informed interventions targeted at improving human and environmental health by embedding these interventions in local knowledge and belief systems for the communities they serve. He also…
Hoai An Pham
Hoai An will work with IC’s Beyond Do No Harm (BDNH) Network on a storytelling and media project. This is a network of US-based health care providers, public health workers, impacted community members, advocates, and organizers working across racial, gender, reproductive, migrant and disability justice, drug policy, sex worker, and anti-HIV criminalization movements to address and interrupt the harm caused when health care providers, public health workers and researchers, and…
Artair Rogers
Artair Rogers is a Population Health Sciences Program doctoral student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department. He is a member of the FXB Health and Human Rights Doctoral Cohort, an affiliated researcher with the Petrie-Flom Law Center, and editor for the Race, Research, Policy Portal for the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. Artair’s research interests are frameworks for anti-racism accountability for health care organizations, health equity data frameworks, and…
Idongesit Sampson
Idongesit is a Masters student in the Social and Behavioral Science department. She has a background in health systems innovation, strategy design and implementation, as well as health policy advocacy. She is interested in the intersection of health and climate change, as well as the impact of human behaviors on health outcomes. Idongesit’s project is focused on understanding the impact of climate change on food security, as well as working…
Muriel Samuels
Muriel is a MPH Nutrition student with concentrations in Nutrition & Global Health & Health Communications. She is an adaptive leader & health strategist focused on innovative solutions within public health nutrition & an interest in using behavioral economics & mindfulness to change health-behavior & automate health-supportive habits in populations. She has work experience in the African & North American region emphasizing community-derived interventions collaborating using local brilliance, practices, traditions…
Naomi Schmeck
Naomi Schmeck is a graduate student in the Department of Global Health and Population. She has concentrations in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Child Protection. Her research focuses on the physical and psychological health impacts on children caused by U.S. immigration and detention policies. She is a volunteer caseworker with the ICRC, assisting and reconnecting families who have been separated due to armed conflict, international migration, or other emergencies. Her career…
Maleeka Shrestha
Maleeka is an international student from Nepal in the Master of Public Health program in Social and Behavioral Sciences. She comes from a biomedical and psychosocial research background and has key interests in mental health and maternal child health. Maleeka is passionate about global health equity, specifically increasing access to high-quality medical care in the global majority. Maleeka’s project will be conducted in partnership with Crisis Management Association, a Greek…
Wallis Slater
Wallis is a Masters of Public Health student in the Health and Social Behavior Program. She has worked to support patients with mental health concerns through roles in hospitals, academic settings, and residential treatment facilities. Most recently, she was the program coordinator for the Outpatient Eating Disorders Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is passionate about increasing access to and availability of mental health treatment options for all individuals. Wallis…
Kendra Sterneck
Kendra is currently earning her Masters in Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in Humanitarian Studies. Previously, Kendra has had roles in hospital administration and community health programming, including most recently working on COVID testing and vaccination program planning. Kendra currently works on research for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative looking at the relationship between climate change, conflict and disaster preparedness in Bangsamoro, Philippines. Kendra’s interests lie in…
Alyssa Van Groningen
Alyssa Van Groningen is passionate about partnering with communities to address health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, particularly with regard to the intersections between substance use, chronic disease, and the social determinants of health. She has held several roles in Indigenous policy within the Australian Government, most recently as the Assistant Director of Indigenous Primary Health Care Policy at the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, where…