Doctoral Student Profiles
Laura Arboleda-Merino
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Mental Health, health equity, modeling, population health
Email address: larb@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
Sarah S. Bassiouni
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Epidemiology (molecular, infectious disease, social), global health, social determinants
of health and health disparities, geospatial analysis, demography
Email address: sbassiou@umich.edu
Deesha Bhaumik
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Dental Epidemiology
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
Danielle Crawford
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology; Health Disparities; Global
Health
Email address: danilsc@umich.edu
Christopher Crowe
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology/Genetic Epidemiology/Chronic Disease/Population Health
Email address: crowec@umich.edu
Joshua Foster-Tucker
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: The intersection of infectious disease epidemiology, epigenetics, and geroscience
Email address: tuckjosh@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
MarieLynn Herrera
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: How health is shaped and impacted by social and political determinants, such as working
conditions, immigration policy, and health insurance policy.
Email address: mherre@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
Mengdi Ji
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious disease, Sexually transmitted disease, Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy,
Global health
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
Nita Kanney
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epigenetics, health disparities, and maternal and child health across the life course.
Email address: kanney@umich.edu
Abigail Kappelman
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology
Email address: kappelma@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
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
Lauren MacConnachie
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Chronic Disease and Aging Epidemiology, Center for Midlife Science
Email address: lmacconn@umich.edu
Kara Mannor
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology/Center of Social Epidemiology and Population Health/Disability Justice
and Public Health
Email address: kmannor@umich.edu
Elizabeth Metzger
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiologic Science, Injury Prevention, Concussion Research, Military Health
Email address: elizmetz@umich.edu
Harry Momo
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Clinical Epidemiology, Global Public
Health
Email address: hdmomo@umich.edu
Justin Oldham, MD
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology, Prediction Modeling
Email address: oldhamj@umich.edu
Lauren Opsasnick
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Email address: opsasnic@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
Awnish Singh
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine preventable disease, disease modeling, Immunology,
vaccine development, vaccine preventable disease surveillance methods, immunization
program operations and vaccine policy.
Email address: awnishks@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
Danielle Stone
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Intersection of Social and Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Complex Systems, Computational
Modeling
Email address: tystone@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
Hannah Van Wyk
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Mathematical Modeling, Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Email address: hcvw@umich.edu
JIaxin Wu
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Environmental epidemiology, population health
Email address: jiaxinw@umich.edu
Jade Yang
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Global Health, Vaccine Science and Policy, Virology
Email address: jadeyang@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
José Zambrana
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology; Infectious Disease epidemiology
Email address: jzamb@umich.edu
Luis Zavala Arciniega
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Email address: lzavalaa@umich.edu
Troy Zirui Zhou
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Modeling, population health, chronic diseases,
infectious disease epidemiology
Email address: zzrtroy@umich.edu
Mia Qihan Zhu
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Sleep epidemiology, Childhood exposures, Perinatal epidemiology
Email address: mqzhu@umich.edu