Doctoral Student Profiles
Aliya Alimujiang
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Cancer Epidemiology, Etiology and Prevention of Ovarian cancer, Breast Cancers, and
Prostate cancer.
Email address: aaliya@umich.edu
Emily Andrus
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Mathematical Modeling, Complex Systems, Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Email address: ecandrus@umich.edu
Jillian Baker
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Center for Midlife Science
Email address: jillbake@umich.edu
Maria Jhoana Barajas
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Noncommunicable diseases, social epidemiology, health disparities, access to care,
and community-based participatory research.
Email address: barajas@umich.edu
Mikayla Barry
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: nutritional epidemiology, food insecurity, psychosocial and mental health, Center
for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH)
Email address: barrymik@umich.edu
Rachael Beer
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology/Psychiatric Epidemiology/Perinatal Epidemiology/Nutritional Epidemiology
Email address: rjbeer@umich.edu
Deesha Bhaumik
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Dental Epidemiology
Freida Blostein
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Email address: blostein@umich.edu
Morgan Byrd
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Email address: mcbyrd@umich.edu
Dima Chaar
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population
Health (CSEPH)
Email address: dimac@umich.edu
Haeyoon Chang
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Social Epidemiology/Chronic Disease/Global Health/Health Disparities/Lifespan and
Aging/Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH)
Email address: haeyoonc@umich.edu
Chen Chen
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Racial disparities in recurrent stroke and post-stroke acute care
Email address: chensph@umich.edu
Tsai-Chin Cho
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology/ Epidemiologic Science/ Social determinants of health; health disparities
Email address: tccho@umich.edu
Christopher Crowe
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology/Genetic Epidemiology/Chronic Disease/Population Health
Email address: crowec@umich.edu
Alan Fossa
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, specifically environmental epidemiology.
Email address: fossaal@umich.edu
Aaron Frutos
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Global Health, Spatial Analysis
Email address: frutosa@umich.edu
Jiaqi Gao
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Environmental Epidemiology
Email address: jiaqigao@umich.edu
Berhanu G. Gebremeskel
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiological Science, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Vaccines, Vaccine Preventable
Diseases, Global Health
Email address: bgebreme@umich.edu
César Higgins Tejera
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology/Epidemiological Sciences/Genetic Epidemiology
Email address: chigg@umich.edu
Gregory Hoy
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, global health
Email address: ghoy@umich.edu
Maheen Humayun
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology/ Global Health / Tuberculosis
Email address: maheen@umich.edu
Jessica Ibiebele
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection
Prevention
Email address: jibiebel@umich.edu
Eskira Kahsay
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Psychiatric epidemiology, Social epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and
Population Health (CSEPH)
Email address: eskahsay@umich.edu
Anam Mashaal Khan
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), Institute
for Social Research (ISR); Social determinants of health, chronic disease, aging,
health disparities, access to care/health services utilization
Email address: anammk@umich.edu
Lilah Khoja
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Cancer disparities; Arab and Arab American Health; Ovarian cancer; Cervical cancer;
Bladder cancer
Email address: lkhoja@umich.edu
Allie Leis
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Center for Midlife Science; obesity, peri-operative outcomes
Email address: aledat@umich.edu
Lisha Lin
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology / Genetics Epidemiology / Social Epidemiology / Aging / Center for Social
Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH)
Email address: lishalin@umich.edu
Kathleen Lindsey
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases.
Email address: klindz@umich.edu
Delvon T. Mattingly
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiologic Science, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use Epidemiology, Center for
Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), Center for the Assessment of the
Public Health Impact of Tobacco Regulations
Email address: delvon@umich.edu
Kat Miller
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Email address: millekat@umich.edu
Harry Momo
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Clinical Epidemiology, Global Public
Health
Email address: hdmomo@umich.edu
Ramya Naraharisetti
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Global Health, Center for Social Epidemiology and
Population Health
Email address: rsetti@umich.edu
Lauren Opsasnick
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Email address: opsasnic@umich.edu
Mia Q. Peng
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology; Women's health; Environmental epidemiology; Center for Midlife Science
Email address: pengq@umich.edu
Minh Tung Phung
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Cancer epidemiology, Etiology, prevention, and treatment of breast, ovarian and cervical
cancers.
Email: phungmt@umich.edu
Alexis Reeves
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology, Psychosocial Stress and Measurement,
Cardiovascular Disease
Email address: alexisnr@umich.edu
Kalee Rumfelt
Program/affiliation/area of specialty:
Email address: rumfeltk@umich.edu
Max Salvatore
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Cancer risk prediction and stratification; biobank and EHR data analysis; health
disparities; Arab and Arab American health; Center for Precision Health Data Science
Email address: mmsalva@umich.edu
Wade Sanders
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Chronic Disease Epidemiology; Inflammation; Use of Diagnostic and predictive Biomarkers;
Center for Midlife Science
Email address: wadesand@umich.edu
Andrea Sosa Moreno
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology, Global Health
Email address: arsosa@umich.edu
Hannah Steinberg
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population
Health
Email address: hsteinb@umich.edu
Jiale Tan
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Mathematics Modeling, Infectious Disease Modeling, Chronic Disease Modeling, Operations
Research
Email address: jialetan@umich.edu
Mislael A. Valentin Cortes
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Social & environmental epidemiology, climate change, natural hazards, disasters,
structural health inequities, community-based methods, international health
Email address: mislaelv@umich.edu
Weiye Wang
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Ophthalmologic Epidemiology
Email address: weiyew@umich.edu
Steph Wraith
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Global Health, Mathematical Modeling
Email address: sewraith@umich.edu
Xuexin Yu
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Social determinants/Cognitive aging/Lifecourse epidemiology/Center for Social Epidemiology
and Population Health (CSEPH).
Email address: xuexiny@umich.edu
Boya Zhang
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Science
Email address: zhboya@umich.edu
Luis Zavala Arciniega
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Email address: lzavalaa@umich