ETS PhD Alumni Profiles

Ekland Abdiwahab, PhD, MPH
The Effects of Multilevel Social Stressors on Cancer-Related Health Behaviors
Graduated: 2024
Advisor: Scarlett Gomez

Kristen Azar, PhD
Examining the Influence of Care Processes and Clinical Engagement on Disparities in Blood Pressure Control
Graduated: 2024
Advisor: Maria Glymour

Jean Digitale, PhD
Predicting extubation readiness in pediatric intensive care unit patients
Graduated: 2024
Advisor: Mark Pletcher

Alice Guan, PhD, MPH 
Structural discrimination and substance use among emerging adults in the United States
Graduated: 2024
Advisor: Scarlett Gomez

Sirena Gutierrez, PhD, MPH
Racial disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: the role of school segregation and the schooling environment
Graduated: 2024
Advisor: Jackie Torres

Sarah Raifman, PhD
Intended and unintended effects of policies targeting alcohol and drug use in the context of pregnancy: exploring causal inference and multi-level modeling approaches
Graduated: 2024
Advisor: Sarah Roberts

Eduardo Santiago-Rodriguez, PhD, MPH
The Social Environment and Colorectal Cancer in the United States
Graduated: 2024
Advisor: Robert Hiatt

Akansha Batra, PhD
Examining the Influence of Care Processes and Clinical Engagement on Disparities in Blood Pressure Control
Graduated: 2023
Advisor: Rita Hamad

Kristina Dang, PhD 
Role of air pollution and socioeconomic position on cognition over six years in older adults in the United States
Graduated: 2023
Advisor: Maria Glymour

Amanda Irish, PhD, DVM, MPH
Education and later-life blood pressure: evidence from compulsory schooling laws and college expansion in the United States
Graduated: 2023
Advisor: Anusha Vable

Erika Meza, PhD, MPH
The effect of intergenerational education on cognitive outcomes for and among Latinos in the US
Graduated: 2023
Advisor: Jackie Torres

Sarah Rae Wannier, PhD
Modeling the transmission of Ebola and GU Chlamydia in Sub-Saharan African countries under both epidemic and endemic settings
Graduated: 2023
Advisor: Travis Porco

Chloe Eng, PhD
Education and cognitive resilience: the role of schooling characteristics in shaping an ability to maintain high levels of cognitive functioning after the onset of disease
Graduated: 2022
Advisor: Maria Glymour

Zara Izadi, PhD
COVID-19 Outcomes in People with Rheumatic Disease: Results from a Global Physician-Reported Registry
Graduated: 2022
Advisor: Jinoos Yazdany

Dan Kelly, PhD 
Natural history and epidemiology of Ebola virus disease
Graduated: 2022
Advisor: George Rutherford

Crystal Langlais, PhD
Impact of Modifiable Diet and Lifestyle Factors on Prostate Cancer Progression and Mortality
Graduated: 2022
Advisor: June Chan

Vignesh Arasu, PhD
Evaluation of Breast Imaging Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Future Risk and Treatment Response
Graduated: 2021
Advisor: Nola Hylton

Adrienne Epstein, PhD, MS
Leveraging routine surveillance to estimate, map, and monitor malaria burden in Uganda
Graduated: 2021
Advisor: Scarlett Gomez

Francois Rerolle, PhD, MS
Importance, size and mobility of forest-going populations for malaria elimination in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Graduated: 2021
Advisor: Adam Bennett
 

Raj K. Kalapatapu, PhD, MD
Cognitive Rehabilitation for Cocaine Use Disorder
Graduated: 2020
Advisor: Kevin Delucchi

Luis A. Rodriguez, PhD, MPH, RD
Estimating the Race/Ethnic-Specific Association Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes, and the Role of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Graduated: 2020
Advisor: Alka Kanaya

Michelle Roh, PhD, MPH
Evaluating the impact of malaria control interventions on birth outcomes
Graduated: 2020
Advisor: Roly Gosling

Stephen B. Asiimwe, PhD, MD
Interventions to Mitigate the Impact of HIV in Key Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Graduated: 2019
Advisor: Judy Haan

Megha Mehrotra, PhD, MPH
From Trials to Public Health Impact: Transportability of Causal Effects to Inform Implementation of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis
Graduated: 2019
Advisor: David Glidden

Sarah Ackley, PhD
Mathematical Models of Vaccine-Preventable Disease in California
Graduated: 2018
Advisor: Travis Porco

Kristen Aiemjoy, PhD, MSc
Defining Diarrhea: Validating and improving caregiver-reported stool consistency as a measure of pediatric diarrhea in the Amhara region of Ethiopia
Graduated: 2018
Advisor: Jeremy Keenan

Joshua Demb, PhD, MPH
Multilevel Factors in Cancer Screening
Graduated: 2018
Advisor: Isabel Allen

Natalie Engmann, PhD
Breast density, body mass index, and breast cancer risk: Implications for clinical and public health settings
Graduated: 2018
Advisor: Karla Kerlikowske

Alyssa Mooney, PhD, MPH
Proposition 47: Effects of a California Drug Law Reform on Hospital Visits and Racial and Geographic Disparities in Criminal Justice Involvement
Graduated: 2018
Advisor: Maria Glymour

Kathryn Ray, PhD, MA
Innovative Microbial Outcomes in Randomized Control Trials
Graduated: 2018
Advisor: Thomas Lietman

Caroline Tai, PhD, MPH
Integrating Genetics Into Population-Based Studies
Graduated: 2018
Advisor: John Witte

Maya Mascarenhas, PhD
Physical activity in motherhood: intervention, trajectory, and mixed methods analyses
Graduated: 2017
Advisor: June Chan

Cecily Rose Miller, PhD, MPH
From guidelines to implementation: Strategies to improve tuberculosis case detection
Graduated: 2017
Advisor: Phillip Hopewell

Heidi Serene Moseson, PhD, MPH
Unintended Pregnancy & Abortion: Methodological Innovations in Family Planning Research
Graduated: 2017
Advisor: Robert Hiatt

Tu My To, PhD, MPH
Nativity, Immigration, and Cardiovascular Health in Older Mexican-origin Adults
Graduated: 2017
Advisor: Mary Haan

Yea-Hung Chen, PhD
HIV transmission among men who have sex with men: risks, tools, and consequences
Graduated: 2016
Advisor: Travis Porco

Kristin Hoeft, PhD, MPH
Parental preventive behaviors and oral health in Latino children
Graduated: 2016
Advisors: Robert Hiatt, Judith Barker

Eugenie Poirot, PhD
Evaluating the safety of malaria treatment in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient individuals: evidence and tools to support malaria elimination
Graduated: 2016
Advisor: Roland Gosling

Priya Prasad, PhD, MPH
Evaluating Quality Improvement Interventions: Strengthening Causal Inference with Observational Data
Graduated: 2016
Advisor: Ralph Gonzales

M. Cyrus Maher, PhD, MPH, MS
Harnessing Change: Human Health through the Lens of Evolution and Dynamical Systems Theory
Graduated: 2014
Advisor: Ryan Hernandez

Katherine Nishimura, PhD
The Effects of Air Pollution on Asthma in Latino and African American Children
Graduated: 2014
Advisor: Esteban Burchard

Glenn-Milo Santos, PhD, MPH
Substance Use and Alcohol among Key Populations at risk for HIV: Novel Approaches in Intervention Development and Evaluation
Graduated: 2014
Advisor: David Vlahov

Hannah Thompson, PhD, MPH
Participatory Action Research to Improve Physical Education in San Francisco Public Schools
Graduated: 2014
Advisors: Eric Vittinghoff; Kristine Madsen

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, PhD, MPH 
Type 2 Diabetes, Risk of Dementia and Cognitive Decline, and the Competing Risk of Mortality Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults 
Graduated: 2013
Advisor: Mary Haan