Josie Chen '24

• Water, Health, & Development in Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Ashton Body '24

• Right or Privilege: Negotiations of Insulin Pricing in the United States

Esther Chai '25

• Characterizing the Landscape of Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnostic Screening Tools in Sub-Saharan Africa

Charlotte Duesing '25

• Rebuilding the Bay

Sophia Fend '24

• Empistemic Injustice and Health Inequality: A theoretical and empirical investigation

Andrea Hernandez '24

• Rio de Janeiro: The Vaccine Revolt of 1904 to Bolsonaro's Treatment of Covid-19

Alaha Nasari '24 

• The Politicization of Medical Ethics: Afghan Doctors Under the Taliban Regime

Kira Traylor '24

• Food and Survivial: How slaves in Saint Kitts and Nevis used food to obtain agency and identity during the British Slave Trade (1600-1807)

Julia Yanez '24

• Endemic, Epidemic, or Eradicated: Malaria, Conquest, and a Future of Reparations

Brian Zhou '25

• Peer Counseling in Crisis: Reimagining Mental Health at Harvard

Caleb Gordon '23

• Concentration: Anthropology
• Research: "As the Doctor Bird Flies: Nationalism, Sovereignty, and the Migration of Jamaican Physicians to the United States"
• Research Advisor: Annikki Herranen-Tabibi

Mariam Markabani '23

• Concentration: Neuroscience
• Research: "Revitalizing the Humanitarian Response in Lebanon's Multi-Faceted Crisis: Addressing Challenges and Strengthening Localized Responses"
• Research Advisor: Joelle Abi-Rached

Heba Mohamed '23

• Concentration: History and Science
• Research: "A Systematic Review: Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Amidst Ebola Outbreaks"
• Research Advisor: Gregg Grenough

Sheccid Ontiveros-Santillan '23

• Concentration: History and Science
• Research: "The Lived Experiences of Sweet Blood: The Burden of Diabetes Amongst Migrant Farmworkers"
• Research Advisor: Angelica Marquez-Osuna

Siona Prasad '23

• Concentration: Computer Science
• Research: "Image-Based Algorithms for Remote Surgical Site Infection Diagnosis in Rural Rwanda"
• Research Advisor: Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

Michelle Qin '23

• Concentration: Statistics 
• Research: "Increased Rates of Dementia-Related Hospitalizations Due to Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution: A causal inference analysis" 
• Research Advisor(s): Dr. Daniel Monk, Dr. Francesca Dominici 

Oksanna Samey '23

• Concentration: Integrative Biology
• Research: "Solving the Promethean Paradox: Elucidating the dynamics of liver regeneration by designing a novel in vivo repeated injury model"
• Research Advsior(s): Dr. Karel Alcedo, Dr. Fernando Camargo

Roanna Zou '23

• Concentration: 
• Research: "An Ancient Practice for Modern Care: Caregiving Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine"
• Research Advisor: Arthur Kleinman 

Emily Sanchez '24 (Mar) 

• Concentration: Integrative Biology 
• Cordeiro Research Proposal: "Pre-Lupus Immune Signature (PRELIMS) Study"
• Research Advisor: Karen Costenbader

Olubusola Banjoh '22

• Concentration: History of Science, and African and African America Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Cost of Complexion: The Limitations and Legacy of the Exclusion of Colorism From Trauma Frameworks
• Research Advisor: Udodiri Okwandu

Roshni Chakraborty '22

• Concentration: Social Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Last Link: The Inequity of India’s Response to Child Trafficking
• Research Advisor: Jacqueline Bhabha

Alexandre Chaumette '22

• Concentration: Neuroscience; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Psychosocial Adversity and Language Learning Outcomes of

2- and 5-year-old Bangladeshi Children

• Research Advisor: Laura Pirazzoli

Suuba Demby '22

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: A Perspective on Female Targeted Therapeutics for HIV/AIDS in South Africa
• Research Advisors: Fatima Hussain and Douglas Kwon

Sreekar Mantena '22

• Concentration: Statistics and Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Model-Guided Exploration Algorithms for Designing Viral Diagnostics
• Research Advisor: Pardis Sabeti

Nora Marzouqa '22

• Concentration: History or Science, and Neuroscience; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Missing Children of Romania:  A Story of a Group Erased from Its Own Narrative
• Research Advisors: Anne Harrington and Katie McLaughlin

Smit Chitre '21

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Wounded Healers: Burnout in Detroit Doctors before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic
• Research Advisor: Arthur Kleinman

Patricia Fuentes '22

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Exiled Doctors: Cuban Physicians in The Cold War Era
• Research Advisor: Hannah Conway

Anne Lheem '22

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Beyond Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery Practices as a Design Technology for Self-Making, Social Belonging, and Nation Building in 21st Century South Korea
• Research Advisors: Arthur Kleinman and Nicholas Harkness

Aarushi Shah '21

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: ‘We Run this City’: The Intertwining of Disposability, Precarity, and Essentiality amongst Chicago Transit Drivers amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Research Advisor: Salmaan Keshavjee

Sarah Shamoon '22  

• Concentration: Social Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Effects of the Decentralization of the Spanish National Health System on the Nation’s Coronavirus Outcomes 
• Research Advisor: David Cutler

Sandra Zeng '21

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Searching for Care, Not a Cure: Palliative Care in the United States During the AIDS and COVID-19 Epidemics
• Research Advisor: David Jones

Nada Attia '20

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Let’s Talk About Sexually Transmitted Infection: Exploring Arab Immigrant Mothers’ Conceptions Surrounding HPV, Cervical Cancer, and Its Methods of Prevention
• Research Advisor: S.V. Subramanian

Aafreen Azmi '20

• Concentration: The Economic Impact of Epilepsy in the Republic of Guinea; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Electronic Health Records and Diabetes Management: Models of Care in Refugee Clinics in Lebanon
• Research Advisor: Francine Welty

Julie Chung '20

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Redefining “Inclusive” Science: Hawai‘i’s Multicultural Settler Colonial Context
• Research Advisor: Ajantha Subramanian

Madison Earle '20

• Concentration: Neuroscience; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Improving Mental Health and Well-being of Māori Youth with Major Depressive Disorder in Low-income, Rural Communities in New Zealand
• Research Advisor: Anne Becker

Catherine Hua '20

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Mitigating the Global Health Threat of Violent Conflict: A Preventative Framework
• Research Advisor: Dan Shapiro

Marinna Okawa '20

• Concentration: Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Disease of the West: The Influence of Spanish and American Colonization of Guam on Food Consumption Patterns and Risk of Diabetes Mellitus
• Research Advisor: Richard Lee

Dylan Rice '20          

• Concentration: Psychology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Economic Impact of Epilepsy in the Republic of Guinea
• Research Advisor: Farrah Mateen

Emma Seevak '21

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Qualitative Study of the Experiences, Needs, and Desires of People Living with Psychosis in Rural Chiapas, Mexico
• Research Advisor: Jocelyn Viterna

Sara Wetzler '20

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: What Faces Reveal: The Legacy of Hugh Diamond’s Photographic Representations of Mental Illness
• Research Advisor: Christopher Rudeen

Ashri Anurudran ’19

• Concentration: Economics; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Empower to Eliminate: A Randomized Evaluation of a Sexual Violence Prevention Program in Kisumu, Kenya
• Research Advisor: Nathan Nunn

Makeda Daniel ’19

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Patriotic Coping: Trauma and Resilience among Mothers in Boston's Eritrean Diaspora
• Research Advisor: Allan Brandt

Emily Johnson ’19

• Concentration: History of Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Emergence of Planetary Health
• Research Advisor: Gustave Lester

Rebecca Landau ’19

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Knee Osteoarthritis: Reducing Risk and Improving Treatment
• Research Advisor: Ian Wallace

Daniela Muhleisen ’19

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: How Federal Structures Influence Local Policy Variance: A Case Study of Violence Prevention Policy in Mexico City’s Delegations
• Research Advisor: Julia Coyoli

Hannah Posner ’19

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Making a Module to Teach the Double Burden of Malnutrition
• Research Advisor: Emily Harrison

Montita Sowapark ’19

• Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering and Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Dilating Health, Healthcare, and Well-Being: The Experiences of LGBTQ+ Thai People
• Research Advisors: Sari Reisner and Jennifer Lewis

Kayla Thompson ’19

• Concentration: Statistics; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The IM-POWER, Gender Empowerment Program: A Case Study in Balancing Localization and Scale
• Research Advisor: Doris Sommer

Esme Trahair ’19

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Sons of All Australia: Masculinities, Mental Health, and the ‘Aussie Bloke’
• Research Advisor: Arthur Kleinman

Katherine Venturo-Conerly ’20

• Concentration: Psychology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Understanding Provider Attitudes toward Chilean Mental Health Policy: A Qualitative Study
• Research Advisor: Adriana Gutierrez

Akash Wasil ’19

• Concentration: Psychology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Understanding Provider Attitudes toward Chilean Mental Health Policy: A Qualitative Study
• Research Advisor: Adriana Gutierrez

Joseph Wertz ’19

• Concentration: Applied Mathematics; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Typologies of Legal Intervention Homicides in 16 U.S. States: A Latent Class Analysis
• Research Advisor: Matthew Miller  

Allison Yan ’19

• Concentration: Molecular & Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: What Happens after Tuberculosis Treatment? A Study on Outcomes of South African Patients Infected with Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis
• Research Advisor: Abigail Schiff

Ellen Zhang ’19

• Concentration: Integrative Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Indigenous Women’s Health in Peru: Cervical Cancer and Pap Smears in the Shipibo-Conibo Community
• Research Advisors: Andrew Berry

Leen Al Kassab ’18

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Continuing Medical Education in Countries of Conflict
• Research Advisors: Valerie Dobiesz and Adrienne Fricke

Katherine Blanton ’18

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Doomsday Doctors: Medical Activism in the Nuclear Age, 1960-2000
• Research Advisor: Scott Podolsky

Jacqueline Epstein ’18

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Improving Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment Through a Stronger Understanding of Risk Factors
• Research Advisor: Lois Choi-Kain

Margot Mai ’18

• Concentrations: Anthropology, Romance Languages and Literature; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Street Hurt: Injury and Care in Nigerian Sex Work Migration
• Research Advisor: Arthur Kleinman

Yousra Neberai ’18

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: A Dilemma of Diversity? The Relationship between Ethnic Fractionalization and Universal Health Coverage in Africa
• Research Advisor: Melani Cammett

Shayla Partridge ’18

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Indecent Exposure: The Social and Medical Meanings of Substance-Exposed Newborns in the Twentieth Century
• Research Advisor: David Shumway Jones

Nicholas Seymour ’19

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: A State of Sickness: Young Mexican Doctors on the Periphery
• Research Advisors: Arthur Kleinman

Samantha Singal ’18

• Concentration: Visual and Environmental Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Nine Weeks in Town Two
• Research Advisor: Alfred Guzzetti

Sara Surani ’18

• Concentration: Social Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Birthing the Nation: Childbirth between Traditional Medicine and Biomedicine in Mwanza, Tanzania
• Research Advisors: Soha Bayoumi

Ramtin Talebi ’18

• Concentration: Chemistry
• Research: Accuracy of Clinical Trial Reporting: A Decade after the FDAAA
• Research Advisor: Rita Redberg

Christie Cheng '17

• Concentration: Neurobiology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: DSM Classification and Resource Access: Implications for Rett Syndrome
• Research advisor: Ryan Draft, Michaela Fagiolini

Zainub Dhanani '17

• Concentration: Comparative Study of Religion; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Addressing Thyroid Disease and Surgery in Low-Resource Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Research advisor: Dimitrios Linos

Joshua Ellis '17

• Concentration: Neurobiology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Planning a Mental Health Initiative in Saint Rock, Haiti: A Key-Informant Needs Assessment
• Research advisor: Byron Good

William Gardner '17

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Institutions, Inequalities, and Infant Death: Understanding the Role of Health Care Decommodification in Latin America
• Research advisor: Jason Beckfield

Michelle Guo '17

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Understanding the Collaboration Between Providers and Patients: Cross-Cultural Care and Social Engagement in a Haitian Diabetes Group 
• Research advisor: Arlene Katz

Tuna Hayirli '17

• Concentration: Environmental Science and Public Policy; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Hopes, Fears, and the Futures of Gene Drives
• Research advisor: Sheila Jasanoff

Aurelio Muzaurieta '17

• Concentration: Romance Languages and Literatures; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research:  Zika Virus in Brazil during 2016 Rio Olympics: Communication Methods, Informational materials, and Public Perceptions
• Research advisor: Viviane Gontijo

Hailey Reneau '17

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Cost of Service: Sex Differences in the Effects of Social Support on PTSD in U.S. Veterans
• Research advisor: Carole Hooven

Emma Satterthwaite Muresianu '17

• Concentration: Neurobiology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Improving the Development and Integration of Early Adverse Experiences Screening & Intervention in Pediatric Primary Care
• Research advisor: Lara Pierce

Marthe Laetitia Tiani Vessah '17

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Let's Talk About Sex: The Acquisition of a Sexual Health Education Among Urban Youth in Cameroon
• Research advisor: Anshul Kumar

Molly Zhao '17

• Concentration: Integrative Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Factors associated with knowledge of obstetric danger signs and of birth preparation in eight high-mortality countries
• Research advisor: Margaret Kruk

Sahar Ashrafzadeh '17

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Effects of Acculturation on the Food Choices and Dietary Behaviors of Iranian Immigrants in Canada
• Research advisor: Jason Block, Michaela Kerrissey

Nicole Bassoff '16

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Whose Name Is It Anyway? "Leprosy," Authority, and the "Hansen's Disease" Movement, 1930-1980
• Research advisor: David Shumway Jones

Rebekka Depew '16

• Concentration: Engineering Sciences; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: An Integrated System for the Management of Type II Diabetes
• Research advisor: Barbara Grosz

Brendan Eappen '16

• Concentration: Psychology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Experimental Insights on Suicide Contagion and Stigma in the Media
• Research advisors: Evan Kleiman, Matthew Nock

Chesley Ekelem '16

• Concentration: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Conservation Biology and Public Health among Indigenous Peoples in Madagascar
• Research advisor: Pete Girguis

Jack Huang '16

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: How Has Continuity of Care in the English General Practice System Changed over Time, and for Whom Has It Changed?  
• Research advisors: Meredith Rosenthal, Martin Roland 

Madison Jung '16

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Policy Noncompliance – Where and Why?
• Research advisor: Ashish Jha

Rachel Knapp '16

• Concentration: African and African American Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Silencing Bodies: Interrogating the role of hegemonic structures in conversations surrounding the abandonment of female genital cutting in Senegal
• Research advisor: George Meiu

Eunah Lee '16

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Righting A Wrong: Connecting The Responses To Medical Error In The U.S. Since The Nineteenth Century
• Research advisor: Cara Kiernan Fallon

Bernadette Lim '16

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Evolutionary and Public Health Implications of Partner Support on Breastfeeding and Co-sleeping
• Research advisors: Katherine Hinde, Diana Ramos

Leah Schwartz '16

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Intersection between Marine Biology and Global Health: Toxins in Marine Habitats
• Research advisor: Scott Podolsky

Vivian Chan '15

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Ethnographic Research on the Efficacy of AMOS Health & Hope, an International Faith-Based Health NGO in Nicaragua
• Research advisor: Ramyar Roussoukh

Maya Dorje '15

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Infant Mortality in Northern Plains Indians
• Research advisor: Sean O'Donnell

Martin Kiik '15

• Concentration: Neurobiology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Quality of Care among Physician-Scientists
• Research advisor: Ashley-Kay Fryer

Michelle Lee '15

• Concentration: Psychology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Role of Nutrition and Early Responsiveness to Executive Functioning Skills: Intervention Effects in Sindh Province, Pakistan
• Research advisor: Charles Nelson

Christina Nguyen '15

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Using E-Health to Improve Patient-Physician Relationships: Who Uses E-Mail?
• Research advisor: Warner Slack

Annika Nielsen '15

• Concentration: Social Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Set in their (Food)ways? Expectation and Experience in the Foodscape of Codman Square
• Research advisor: Aaron Mauck

Ishani Premaratne '15

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Women's Healthcare Seeking Behaviors and their Conceptualization of Value within the Changing Healthcare Marketplace of the Sierra Madre Region of Chiapas, Mexico
• Research advisor: Arthur Kleinman

Taylor Reiter '15

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Amylase Copy Number Variation in Human Health and Evolution
• Research advisor: Terence Capellini

Taehwan Shin '15

• Concentration: Neurobiology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Role of Public Policy for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia
• Research advisor: Portia Cornell

Aubrey Walker '15

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Transitional Justice and Prison Health Delivery Reform in Colombia: A Historical Legal Review and Baseline Health Analysis in “La Modelo"
• Research advisor: Julian Urrutia

Audrey Zhang '15

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Acceptable Risk: Surrogate Endpoints and the Concept of Therapeutic Value at the FDA, 1962-1992
• Research advisor: Aaron Kesselhiem

Ashley Bach '14

• Concentration: Neurobiology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Neural Tube Defect Prevention: A Case Study in Nicaragua
• Research advisors: Christopher Eliott, Paul Rosenberg

Elizabeth Byrne '14

• Concentration: Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology
• Research: The Female Genital Tract: Biological Factors in HIV Acquisition Risk
• Research advisors: Douglas Kwon

Julia Clark '14

• Concentration: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Infection Dynamics of Syphilis in Communities of Men Who Seek Sex with Men using Geo-Social Networks
• Research advisor: Rumi Chunara

Sidney Hilker '14

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Partnering for Better Healthcare: The Role of NGO-Government Partnerships in the Success of Rwanda’s Healthcare System
• Research advisor: Jonathan Philips

Thomas Hwang '14

• Concentration: Special Concentration in Biomedical Innovation; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Essays on Innovation in Infectious Disease and Medical Devices
• Research advisors: Daniel Carpenter, Aaron Kesselheim, Vicki Sato

Samuel Mendez '14

• Concentration: Visual and Environmental Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: “A Bodega”: An Animated Short
• Research advisor: Ruth Lingford

Akanksha Sharma '14

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Russia: A Case Study in the GLOBUS Project
• Research advisor: Danilo Mandic

Andrew Sudler '14

• Concentration: Psychology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Using the Internet for Domestic and Global Epidemiological Research: A Case Study in Childhood Adversity
• Research advisors: Laura Germine, Jordan Smoller

Kristina Tester '14

• Concentration: African and African American Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Increasing the Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery in Rural Areas: A Case Study of Village Health Teams and Childhood Malnutrition in Rukungiri District, Uganda
• Research advisor: Jean Comaroff

Barbara Trejo '14

• Concentration: Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Rice Fortification as an Intervention to Target Micronutrient Deficiencies: A Review on Precedents, Current Efforts, and Future Directions
• Research advisor: Karen Michels

Viroopa Volla '14

• Concentration: Economics; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Estimating the Impacts of Supreme Court Decisions on Market Valuation for GMO Producers: An Empirical Approach
• Research advisor: Paula Chu

Emmanuella Asabor '13

• Concentration: History and Science
• Research: The Negro Heart: Syphilis, Civilization, and the Race Problem in American Cardiology, 1925-1945
• Research advisor: David S. Jones

Benjana Guraziu '13

• Concentration: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Access to Quality Healthcare for Immigrants in London
• Research advisor: Warner Slack

Samita Mohanasundaram '14

• Concentration: Environmental Science and Public Policy; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: From Our Gardens to Our Bodies: The Leukemogenic Potential of the Agricultural Pesticide Mancozeb
• Research advisor: Susan Wason

Daniel Okubo '13

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Fiscal Health Vital Signs: An Ethnography of a Non-medical Approach to Improving Health in Codman Square
• Research advisors: Arthur Kleinman, Maria Stalford

Debanjan Pain '13

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Operational Characteristics of Eight Different HIV Assays
• Research advisor: Amanda Pinkston

Sachin Patel '13

• Concentration: Chemical and Physical Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Diabetes Risk Assessment and Illness Perception among Urban Native Americans
• Research advisor: Dennis Norman

Brittany Powell '13

• Concentration: Neurobiology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Rapid Ethnographic Asessement of Key Informants in Household Chart Program in Neno, Malawi
• Research advisor: Paul Farmer

Mythili Prabhu '13

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Strategies for Addressing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Public Policy and Scientific Suggestions for Addressing the Global Burden of COPD
• Research advisor: Jayaraj Rajagopal

Pei (Paige) Qin '13

• Concentration: Economics; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Who Pays for Health Insurance? Public and Private Sector Labor Market Responses to Rising Health Care Costs
• Research advisor: Michael Chernew

Karen Villegas '13

• Concentration: Environmental Science and Public Policy; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: A Nation at Risk: Evaluating National Policies Addressing the Nutrition Transition in Chile, 1998–2013
• Research advisor: Prachi Sanghavi

Eberechukwu Anidi '12

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: A Specialty within Its Own Right: The Changing Self-Perception and Professional Expectations of the British General Practitioner
• Research advisor: Myrna Perez

Samuel Bakkila '12

• Concentration: Special Concentration in Social Inequality and Health
• Research: HIV/AIDS in Africa: A Colonial and Neoliberal Epidemic
• Research advisor: Ben Sosnaud

Sandra Fryhofer '12

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Implementation Game: A Study of Insurance Exchange Development in the States
• Research advisor: Theda Skocpol

Samuel Galler '12

• Concentration: East Asian Studies; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: The Politics of HIV and Chinese NGOs
• Research advisors: Arthur Kleinman, Felicity Aulino

Kirsten Jorgensen '12

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Hygiene from Sea to Shore: Mid-20th Century Medical Ships on the Alaskan Frontier
• Research advisor: Maya Peterson

Anisha Kumar '12

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Reconstructing the Individual: Narratives of Cancer from Young Adult Patients in Boston, Massachusetts
• Research advisor: Arthur Kleinman

Lavinia Mitroi '12

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: From the Orfanotrofia to the Institutions for Irrecoverables: Tracing the Origins of Institutional Care for Orphaned and Abandoned Children in Romania
• Research advisor: Charles Nelson

Elizabeth Pinto '12

• Concentration: Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: “Let’s Invite Them In” versus “We Just Don’t Have the Resources to Support You”: Selective and Non-Selective College Administrators as Creators of Alcohol Policies and Practices, Campus Cultures, and Student Identities, and Implications for Opportunities in Higher Education
• Research advisor: Chiwen Bao

Angela Primbas '12

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Technology Innovation in Global Health: Improving Maternal Health Outcomes in Tanzania
• Research advisor: Robert Bates

Matthew Young '12

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Death with Dignity: The Impact of Interest Groups in U.S. Ballot Initiative Campaigns
• Research advisor: Bernard Fraga

Eric (Ricky) Hanzich '11

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Senator Edward M. Kennedy: Policy Entrepreneur for United States Health Care Reform
• Research advisor: Elizabeth Wikler

Christine Kaufmann '11

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Restoring Their Health and Dignity: Health Education Initiatives in Farm Security Administration Migratory Labor Camps
• Research advisor: Mariel Wolfson

Katherine Kim '11

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Unraveling HIV’s Disproportionate Impact on Young Women: An Agent-Based Model of Age-Dependent Mate Choice on the Dynamics and Fitness Consequences of Sexuality
• Research advisor: Charlie Nunn

Phoebe Kuo '11

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Emergent Transfers for Specialized Hand Care: When Are They Necessary?
• Research advisors: Charles Day, Michael Botta

Sarah Maxwell '11

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Social Suffering and Its Transformation: The Senegalese Immigrant Experience in Boston, New York City, and Barcelona
• Research advisors: Arthur Kleinman, Duana Fullwiley

Abigail Schiff '11

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Effects of the AUGE Health Care Reform on the Practice of Medicine in Chile: Differences between the Public and Private Sectors
• Research advisor: Zirui Song

Michelle Seslar '11

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Constructing the Provider-Patient Relationship: How Providers’ Ideals Interact with Systemic Constraints to Shape Practices
• Research advisor: Mary Ruggie

Jonathan Warsh '11

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy
• Research: Cancer Politics: Interest Groups and Disease Funding, 1980–2007
• Research advisor: Daniel Carpenter

Frank Chen '10

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: Knowledge, Education, and Preventive Behavior: Assessing a Hepatitis B Health Education Program for Asian and Pacific Islanders in Boston
• Research advisor: Zirui Song

Christopher Chen '10

• Concentration: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Antiobiotic Resistance and Health Policy
• Research advisor: Amitabh Chandra

Jonathan (JJ) Diah '10

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: A Case Study of Political Response to Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS: Botswana and South Africa
• Research advisor: Susannah Rose

Marianne Eagan '10

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: The Right of the Individual to Have Small Pox if He Wants It: A Reevaluation of Jacobson v. Massachusetts and Compulsory Vaccination
• Research advisor: Mariel Wolfson

Natalia Festa '10

• Concentration: Sociology; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: More than Just Class: Understanding How Social Networks Shape Parenting Strategies
• Research advisors: Jason Beckfield, Anne Owens

Shiv Gaglani '10

• Concentration: Engineering Sciences; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: Incentives and Obstacles Influencing the Implementation of Health Information Technology in Chile
• Research advisor: Susannah Rose

Jackie Hsieh '10

• Concentration: Human Evolutionary Biology; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: The Perfect Match: A Study of MD candidate Choice to Pursue Primary Care
• Research advisor: Zirui Song

Jessica Luna '10

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: We Can’t Afford (Not) to Eat This Way: Food Stamp Users and the Alternative Food Movement
• Research advisor: Tim Nelson

Maxwell Nwaru '10

• Concentration: History and Science; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Tracing Investigations of Disease: The Epidemiological Society of London and Cholera, 1860–1880
• Research advisor: Jennifer Thomson

Dwight Pope '10

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: Not One-Size-Fits-All: Negotiating Health Resources Post-Incarceration
• Research advisors: Bruce Western, Eva Rosen

Sanjey Sivanesan '10

• Concentration: Government; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: The Lost Legacy of George H.W. Bush: A Look into the Derailment of Healthcare Policy in the Bush Administration
• Research advisor: Roger Porter

Raquel Toledo '10

• Concentration: Sociology; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: Re-examining the Epidemiological Paradox: Acculturation and Well-Being among Latina Immigrants
• Research advisor: Van Tran

Bianca Verma '10

• Concentration: Anthropology; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: Segmented Selves: Success, Sadness, and Society Among Second-Generation Indian American Youth in Queens, New York
• Research advisors: Arthur Kleinman, Andy McDowell

Shubha Bhat '09

• Concentration: Economics; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Element of Survival: Isolating the Causal Effect of Access to Iodized Salt on Child Health in India
• Research advisor: Erica Field

Kathryn Brubaker '09

• Concentration: Social Studies; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Compromising for Coverage: The Politics of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform
• Research advisor: Aaron Mauck

Katharine Burmaster '09

• Concentration: Psychology; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: Bridging the Gap: Developing and Implementing Mental Health Services in the Slums of Delhi
• Research advisor: Clifford Lo

Nicolae Done '09

• Concentration: Biochemical Sciences; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Reactions to Change: Doctors’ Opinions on the Effects of Primary Healthcare Reforms in Romania
• Research advisor: Susannah Rose

Kayla Feld '09

• Concentration: Government; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: AIDS and Regulations: The Convergence of Public Health and Human Rights
• Research advisor: Alex de Waal

Isabella Lai '09

• Concentration: Neurobiology; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Zebrafish Model System: Current and Future Health Policy
• Research advisor: Amie Shei

Gilda Medina '09

• Concentration: Social Studies; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Transnational Perceptions, from the Dominican Republic to the United States: Cultural Experiences and Health Systems
• Research advisor: Mark Pachucki

Brian Na '09

• Concentration: History and Science; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Mental Hygiene, Schools and Children: The “Maladjusted” Story of Attention Deficit Disorder
• Research advisor: Kevin Stoller

Urvesh Shelat '09

• Concentration: History and Science; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: Little Power, Great Responsibility: Sir Henry Willink and the British Ministry of Health 1943–1945
• Research advisor: John Mathew

Denise Diaz-Arenas '08

• Concentration: History and Science; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Salubrity, Hygiene, and Public Health in Revolutionary Mexico (1910–1940)
• Research advisor: Alex Medico

Elizabeth Kolbe '08

• Concentration: Special Concentration in Health Policy; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Framing Disability: A Content Analysis on Media Agenda-Setting of Disability Issues in a Political Context
• Research advisors: Meredith Rosenthal, Kalahn Taylor-Clark

John Lin '08

• Concentration: Economics; Secondary Field in Health Policy
• Research: Health Insurance for the Homeless: Why Medicaid May Not Be Enough
• Research advisor: Meredith Rosenthal

Aditi Mallick '08

• Concentration: Social Studies; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Making Motherhood Safer: An Analysis of Maternal Health Care Initiatives in Nepal
• Research advisor: Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Michael Miltenberger '08

• Concentration: Special Concentration in Health Policy; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Pay for Performance and Practice Transformation: How Financial Incentives Drive the Process Changes that Generate Better Quality
• Research advisor: Meredith Rosenthal

Brian Rose '08

• Concentration: Economics; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: A “Poison Pill”? Explanations for Black/White Differentials in the Prevalence of Severe Hypertension from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
• Research advisor: Ellen Meara

Anne Conlin '07

• Concentration: Social Studies; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Community Health Centers as Positive Lifeworld Colonization: Habermas and Health Care Inequalities
• Research advisor: Aaron Mauck

Ifunanya Ejebe '07

• Concentration: Biology; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Improving the Health Outcomes of People with Sickle Cell Disease in Nigeria
• Research advisor: Hector Rodriguez

Maya Frommer '07

• Concentration: Government; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Increasing Influence: Can Domestic Pharmaceutical Organizations Have an International Impact?
• Research advisor: Hector Rodriguez

Alexis Pozen '07

• Concentration: Special Concentration in Health Policy; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Does the U.S. Get What it Pays for? A Comparison of Health Outcomes in the U.S. and Canada
• Research advisors: David Cutler, Joseph Newhouse

Robert Rogers '07

• Concentration: Economics; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: State-Led Efforts at Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: Was the Funding Mechanism for Maine’s Dirigo Health Reform Viable?
• Research advisor: Nancy Kane

Meghan Tieu '07

• Concentration: Economics; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Health Care Philanthroprenuers: Bridging the Gap between Philanthropic Endeavors and Sustainable Business Plans for Health Care Provision
• Research advisor: Hector Rodriguez

Lindsay Crouse '06

• Concentration: History; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: “It Left Us With Nothing”: The Dop System on South African Wine Farms in the Twentieth Century
• Research advisor: Sara Byala

Malini Daniel '06

• Concentration: Special Concentration in Biology and International Policy; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Subverting STIs and Stigmatization: The Automated Needle Exchange and Disposal System (ANEDS) as a Solution to STI Transmission and Stigmatization of Intravenous Drug Users
• Research advisor: David Bloom

Joseph Hanzich '06, died, Sept 2007

• Concentration: Government; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: A Perplexing Prescription: Precompetitive Proposals, Prescription Drugs, and the Passage of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003
• Research advisor: Roger Porter

Navin Kumar '06

• Concentration: Sanskrit and Indian Studies; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Assessing the Role of Caste Identification as a Health Determinant in the Indian States of Bihar and Tamil Nadu
• Research advisor: Manoj Mohanan

Om Lala '06

• Concentration: Government; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: The Political Economy of Self-Regulation and Institutional Path Dependence: Explaining the Resistance to Institutional Change in India's Medical Councils
• Research advisor: David Bloom

Michelle Sonia '06

• Concentration: Environmental Science and Public Policy; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Redeveloping Ground Zero: A Lost Opportunity for Innovation
• Research advisor: Sheila Jasanoff

Jordan Bohnen '05

• Concentration: Special Concentration in Health Policy; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Quality Improvement Collaboratives: Performance and Design – A Systematic Review of Cooperative Efforts to Improve the Delivery of Health Care Services
• Research advisors: Warner Slack, Richard Frank

Stephanie Dorvil '05

• Concentration: Government; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Lost in Translation: A Comparative Study of Limited English Proficiency Policy Processes and Outcomes of Twin Cities
• Research advisors: Daniel Carpenter, Debra Joy Perez

Cornelia Griggs '05

• Concentration: History and Science; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Systems Breakdown: The Politics of Error in American Medicine and the Evolution of the Patient Safety Movement
• Research advisor: Christine Wenc

Karin Shieh '05

• Concentration: History and Science; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Prescriptive Boundaries: Pharmacy’s Battle for Social Control and Professional Authority, 1940–1955
• Research advisor: Maria Trumpler

Molly Simmons '05

• Concentration: Anthropology; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: Questioning Morality: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Israeli Soldiers Serving During the Intifada
• Research advisor: Arthur Kleinman

Eli Sprecher '05

• Concentration: Government; Certificate in Health Policy
• Research: The Strange Case of Medicaid: How the Inclusion of the Elderly in Medicaid Explains Its Political Viability
• Research advisor: Andrea Campbell