Summer 2022 Mentors
Our Mentors at Columbia University
Jocelyn Brown, MD, MPH
Student Project: An Integrated Care Model for Women Experiencing Violence: Observational Study of La Maison des Femmes in Saint-Denis, France
Students: Temitope Akinade (VP&S) and Sofia Ali (VP&S)
Esteban Calvo, PhD, MPH
Student Project: Health Consequences of Pension Policy Reforms across Countries: Historical Antecedents and Current Developments
Students: Claudia Michaels (MSPH)
Batya Elul, PhD, MsC
Student Project: Physician-Disseminated Misinformation: Public Health Impact and Free Speech Implications in the United States and France
Student: Jillian Frechette (MSPH)
David Fidock, PhD
Student Project: Antimalarial Drug Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum in northwest Madagascar
Student: Alysala Malik (VP&S)
Claire Greene, PhD, MPH
Student Project: Evaluating the feasibility of a group psychosocial intervention for migrant and host community women in Ecuador and Panamá: A multi-site feasibility cluster trial
Student: Gabrielle Wimer (VP&S)
Kim Hekimian, PhD
Student Project: Vitamin D Deficiencies in Bangladesh and its Effect on COVID-19: A Review
Student: Samah Malik (CDM)
Ana Jimenez-Bautista, MSW
Student Project: Cognitive Scores among Retired Adults as a mediator on the risk of Depression
Student: Isadora Comens (VP&S)
Philip Kreniske, PhD
Student Project: Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on HIV and Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH) Services in Maska Region, Uganda
Student: Sara Rashidi (MSPH)
Karen Marder, MD, MPH
Student Project: Lifelong cognitive engagement slows symptom progression and neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease: a six year follow-up study
Student: Audrey De Paepe (VP&S)
Kathrine Meyers, DrPH, MS, MPP
Student Project: PrEP Choice: Supporting Shared Decision Making in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis against HIV
Student: Harrison Fillmore (VP&S)
Andrew Moran, MD, MPH
Student Project: Testing a mobile, on-demand hypertension management training app in Abuja, Nigeria
Student: Leander Nguyen (CDM)
Rachel Moresky, MD, MPH
Student Project: Using implementation research to improve the acceptability of an adapted emergency medical referral protocol in two districts in Ghana
Student: Cecilia Crews (MSPH)
Student Project: Developing Acute Care and Emergency Referral Systems (ACERS)
Student: Olufemi Olatidoye (VP&S)
Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD, MPH
Student Project: Critical Limb Ischemia Related to Toxic Metal Levels in the Strong Heart Study
Student: Kishan Bhatt (VP&S)
Alfred Neugut, MD
Student Project: The Association of HIV and Other Risk Factors with Triple Negative Breast Cancer in South African Women
Student: Jacob Dubner (VP&S)
Kathleen Pike, PhD
Student Project: How Can Oral Health Professionals Aid Eating Disorders?
Student: Michael Prado (CDM)
Yoanna Pumpalova, MD
Student Project: The Association of HIV and Other Risk Factors with Triple Negative Breast Cancer in South African Women
Student: Jacob Dubner (VP&S)
Devon Rupley, MD
Student Project: Evaluation of effectiveness of postpartum preparedness interventions in current obstetric care paradigm among patients with significant risk factors and socioeconomic vulnerabilities
Student: Kateri Donahoe (VP&S)
John Santelli, MD, MPH
Student Project: Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on HIV and Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH) Services in Maska Region, Uganda
Student: Sara Rashidi (MSPH)
Sunil Wadhwa, DDS
Student Project: Mandibular Bone Microarchitecture Changes in Postmenopausal Women With and Without HIV
Student: Michael Levit (CDM)
Michael Yin, MD, MS
Student Project: Mandibular Bone Microarchitecture Changes in Postmenopausal Women With and Without HIV
Student: Michael Levit (CDM)
Student Project: Patient Satisfaction in Comprehensive Program for HIV/AIDS at La Clínica de Familia La Romana
Student: Oliver Piltch (VP&S)
Jason Zucker, MD
Our Mentors at Other Sites
Mohammed Ali, PhD, MPH
Student Project: Using implementation research to improve the acceptability of an adapted emergency medical referral protocol in two districts in Ghana
Student: Cecilia Crews (MSPH)
Student Project: Developing Acute Care and Emergency Referral Systems (ACERS)
Student: Olufemi Olatidoye (VP&S)
Ingrid Callies, PhD, LLM
Student Project: Physician-Disseminated Misinformation: Public Health Impact and Free Speech Implications in the United States and France
Student: Jillian Frechette (MSPH)
Estela Camera, PhD
Student Project: Lifelong cognitive engagement slows symptom progression and neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease: a six year follow-up study
Student: Audrey De Paepe (VP&S)
William Ddaaki, MSc
Student Project: Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on HIV and Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH) Services in Maska Region, Uganda
Student: Sara Rashidi (MSPH)
Antonia Diaz Valdes Iriarte, PhD, MSW
Student Project: Cognitive Scores among Retired Adults as a mediator on the risk of Depression
Student: Isadora Comens (VP&S)
Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, MD
Student Project: An Integrated Care Model for Women Experiencing Violence: Observational Study of La Maison des Femmes in Saint-Denis, France
Students: Temitope Akinade (VP&S) and Sofia Ali (VP&S)
Luz Messina
Student Project: Patient Satisfaction in Comprehensive Program for HIV/AIDS at La Clínica de Familia La Romana
Student: Oliver Piltch (VP&S)
Neema Nakyanjo, MA
Student Project: Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on HIV and Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH) Services in Maska Region, Uganda
Student: Sara Rashidi (MSPH)
Fred Nalugoda, PhD, MHSc
Student Project: Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on HIV and Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH) Services in Maska Region, Uganda
Student: Sara Rashidi (MSPH)
Diego Palacios, PhD
Student Project: Friendship Networks and Depression in Adolescence
Student: Jonah Rodgers (VP&S)
Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, PhD
Student Project: Antimalarial Drug Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum in northwest Madagascar
Student: Alysala Malik (VP&S)
Sylvana Q. Sinha, Esq.
Student Project: Vitamin D Deficiencies in Bangladesh and its Effect on COVID-19: A Review
Student: Samah Malik (CDM)
J.L. Stewart, PhD
Student Project: Evaluation of effectiveness of postpartum preparedness interventions in current obstetric care paradigm among patients with significant risk factors and socioeconomic vulnerabilities
Student: Kateri Donahoe (VP&S)