Sunday, May 24, 2026
Providence, Rhode Island
Undergraduate Concentration in Public Health
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors:
William Goedel, Ph.D.
Concentration Advisers:
Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, M.D., MPH, M.S.; Catherine Dubé, EdD, MEd;
John P. Fulton, Ph.D.; William Goedel, Ph.D.; Kaley Hayes, PharmD, Ph.D.;
Michelle Rogers, Ph.D.; Nisha Trivedi, M.D., MPH; and Tongzhang Zheng, Sc.D.
A.B. Public Health
Fopefoluwa Akinyede Adabugwu Anamekwe
Amar Aqel
Susanah Awobajo
Roya Barakzai †
Tenasica Barnwell †
Alyscia Batista *
Olivia Bergin
Soleena Carrillo Ramanathan
Pascale Carvalho
Alex Chang
Leeah Chang †
Yewon Choi †
Thomas Cronin
Misheel Damdinchoimbol
Camille Deckey †
Marina Demas
Jaiden Ditimus *
Amrik Eadara
Chína Emekanwokeji †
Zahra Fayeq *
Olivia Fox
Andrea Garcia Vera
Marti Gemachu
Noah Gomes
Masoumah Haidari *
Olivia Hall
Elijah Harris
Ty Harris
James Hearn *
Ruviha Homma
Shixin Huang
Elena Hurtado Solberg
Cara Hutton
Nastaran Nawa Ibrahimy *
Safwan Islam †
Naomi Jack †
Pierre Jolin
Alisa Korkhin *
Johanna Leang
Samuel Lederman
Andrew Junwon Lee
Judith Lee
Grace Li
Olivia Lu **
Brianna Lucas
Ella Markalunas
Jaysily Martinez Rivera
Alejandra Mineo-Levitsky
Lisa Miyazaki
Emily Mrakovcic
Chidi Olewuenyi
Lauren Olson
Hibo Osman
Daido Ouattara **
Vicki Pu †
Xiyong Quan †
Naomi Raisman
Vijay Ramakrishnan
Shrita Reddy
Jodi Robinson
Samantha Rosario
Shokria Sakhi *
Alexia Sanchez Contreras
Michelle Santos *
Yatharth Sharma *
Alyssa Sherry
Elizabeth Soyemi
Sara Sultani *
Hamid Torabzadeh
Alexandra Tucker *
Mia Turner
Alvaro Uribe
Dominic Valt †
Pooja Yerneni
Luxi Yu †
Victoria Zang
† Departmental Honors
* December 2025 Graduate
** December 2026 Graduate
Undergraduate Concentration in Statistics
Director, Undergraduate Statistics Concentration:
Alice Paul, Ph.D.
Sc.B. Statistics
Kourtney Beauvais
Charly Castillo
Charles Cho
Dane Elliott *
Nicolas Fernandez Baigun
Sydney Fritz
Sophie Gideon
Jason Kim
Julia Kostin **
Grace Li
Bailey Smoko
Nikhil Sonthalia
Yeju Srivastava *
Pooja Yerneni †
Andrew Zhong
† Departmental Honors
* December 2025 Graduate
** December 2026 Graduate
Graduate Program in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences
Chair, Behavioral and Social Health Sciences:
Jennifer Sacheck, Ph.D.
Director, Behavioral and Social Health Sciences Doctoral Program:
Kate Carey, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Behavioral and Social Health Sciences
Amelia Bailey
“Use of Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder
During Incarceration and Upon Release:
A Mixed Methods Study and Review of
Influential Social-Ecological Factors.”
Dissertation Advisers: Kate Carey and Rosemarie Martin
Chase Bryer
“Reframing Aging with HIV:
Pathways to Aging Well for Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ People.”
Dissertation Adviser: Jeff Proulx
Ugoji Nwanaji-Enwerem
“The PARKS (Parks Assessment Research and Knowledge of Soundscapes) Study.”
Dissertation Adviser: Diana Grigsby-Toussaint
Siobhan Perks
“A Multipronged Approach to Understanding the
Co-Occurring Use of Alcohol and Electronic Cigarettes Among Young Adults.”
Dissertation Adviser: Jennifer Merrill
Elizabeth Silva
“Multilevel Determinants of Diet, Food Insecurity,
and Policy Context Among Latino Adolescents and Families in the United States.”
Dissertation Adviser: Alison Tovar
Master of Arts in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences
Rey Flores
Alise Fortune
Abigail Morales
Michelle Perry
Graduate Program in Biostatistics
Chair, Biostatistics:
Joseph Hogan, Sc.D.
Director, Biostatistics Master’s Programs:
Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou, Ph.D.
Director, Biostatistics Doctoral Program:
Corwin Zigler, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Biostatistics
Shuo Feng
“Why Would Untreated Trends Have Been Parallel?
Bringing mechanistic understanding into observational causal inference.”
Dissertation Adviser: Alyssa Bilinski
Esteban Fernandez Morales
“Bayesian Causal Inference with Complex Assignment Mechanisms:
Applications in Health Economics and Public Health.”
Dissertation Advisers: Arman Oganisian and Youjin Lee
Nickolas Lewis
“Statistical Framework For Handling Variable Importance
and Missing Data in Electronic Health Records.”
Dissertation Adviser: Joe Hogan
Chang Yu
“Statistical methods for biomarker identification
in high throughput data with application in NanoString nCounter.”
Dissertation Adviser: Zhijin Wu
Sc.M. Biostatistics
Xurui Gao
Chang Guo
Yanhao Ji
Xuan Jiang
Valentin Kirilenko
Siqi Li
Yue Li
Man-Fang Liang
Ian Liu
Jingrui Liu
Mengyue Liu
Ashley Lockwood
Shuyan Luo
Kaizhong Mu
Yuzhou Peng
Dwight Ross ‡
Shan Su
Yiyun Wan
Depeng Wang
Mingzheng Wang
Yuqin Wang
William Welsh
Zizhao Xie
Weijing Yin
Aijia Zhang
Zinan Zhao
Mo Zhou
‡ NextGen Scholar
Master of Arts in Biostatistics
Chris Kourkoulakos *
* 5th Year UG/AM
Doctoral Program in Epidemiology
Chair, Epidemiology:
Katie Biello, Ph.D.
Director, Epidemiology Doctoral Program:
William Goedel, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Epidemiology
Ralph Welwean
“Using Administrative Health Data to Evaluate Racial
and Ethnic Disparities in Addiction Treatment Initiation
and Risk of Opioid Overdose.”
Dissertation Adviser: Francesca Beaudoin
Doctoral Program in Health Services Research
Chair, Health Services, Policy, and Practice:
Ateev Mehrotra, Ph.D.
Director, Health Services, Policy, and Practice Doctoral Program:
David Meyers, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Health Services Research
Gray Babbs
“Examining Disparities in Quality of Chronic Disease Care
among Transgender and Cisgender Medicare Beneficiaries”
Dissertation Adviser: David Meyers
Courtney Baird
“The Impact of the Medicare Shared Savings Program
on Falls and Fall Prevention Among Older Adults.”
Dissertation Adviser: Pedro Luis Gozalo
Meghan Bellerose
“Insurance Design, Care Fragmentation, and Access to
Reproductive and Perinatal Healthcare for Women with Disabilities.”
Dissertation Adviser: Theresa Shireman
Susan Hayes
“The Newest 'Burdensome Transition'?
Moving from Medicaid Expansion Coverage to Medicare at Age 65.”
Dissertation Adviser: Amal Trivedi
Andrew Huang
“Using Observational Data to Inform Optimal Treatment Schedules:
An Application for Bladder Cancer.”
Dissertation Adviser: Tom Trikalinos
Master’s in Healthcare Leadership
Academic Director:
Dr. Scott Rivkees
Hatem Abou-Sayed
Shulamith Acevedo
Farshad Anvari
Abdulmajid Asiri
Christina Assaf-Soliman
Thomas Barrett
Julio Blasco Jimenez
Meghan Bullard
Kenia Collins
Mark Dela Cruz-Hunt
Dawson Davis
Niles Easley
Suzanne Elfman
David Epstein
Amber Erskine
Marisa Gasbarra
Karen Gomez
Alyssa Grant
Robert Hampton
Blake Harding
Jay Al-Hashimi
Matthew Kirkpatrick
James McMahan
Damon Mitchell
Sarah Murphy
Omkareshwar Naik
John Nwofia
Benjamin Palmer
Shalina Patel
Geoffrey Patterson
Jheraldines Paulino
Antonella Pena
Simbarashe Peresuh
Robert Petree
Andrew Reardon
Praveen Reddy
Dana Reissner
Zachary Rickard
Eimi Rodriguez Cruz
Gonzalo Rodriguez
Sean Rogers
Christopher Roy
Kirstyn Smith
Christopher Stone
Laura Tongi
Tyshan Wilson
Master of Public Health
Director:
Karen Andes, Ph.D.
Director:
Nithya Ramesh, D.Sc.
Ella Abourjaily
Syam Adusumilli
Zaina Akeh
Aysun Akhundlu
Oluwarotimi Akinya
Aditi Akolkar
Salina Akther
Punnava Alam †
Abram Alebiosu
Amaya Allen †
David Allenson
Anthony Arango ‡
Ariel Araujo
Xenia Arinez de la Vega
Diego Arroyo
Yinessa Baez Gonzalez
Dominque Bannerman
Dana Barclay
Lisa Bauer
Benicio Beatty †
Hannah Bedrosian
Jason Berkowitz
Kimberly Boettcher Ω
Ann Bon
Hannah Boudreau
Isabelle Boullier ‡
Lauren Brown
Stacey Burnett
Ryan Calabrese
Carlo Castillo
Andrea Chavez Romero ‡
Xiaoxin Chen
Allison Ching
Jay Choi
Talie Cloud
Sabrina Clumeck Δ
Christine Cong
Cameron Cooper ‡
Mia Cooper
Emma Cortes
Meta Covington †
AllexAndrya Dawn
Patrick Delices
Anne Deubel
Madelyn Dewitt
Saud Dhillon
Nicole Donohue
Hailey Dorsainvil †
Donald Edwards
Farah Fasihuddin
Sandra Fletcher
Sarah Garcia
Gautham Gautham
Aaron George
Priscilla George
Kamelia Ghazi
Meghan Ghumman
Mallory Go †
Pallavi Goel
Vicki Goutzoulis
Claire Guillen
Keydron Guinn
Zoha Gulamali
Skyler Gupta
Lauren Haines
George Handley
Zuxian Hao
Alaekhiya Haq
Soulin Haque
Isabelle Hart
Charis Haynes ‡
Kevin Haynes Ω
Anji Herman
Victoria Hippen
Amy Hires
Graham Huntington †
Gregory Hurter
Amarachi Ike
Alex Ivanchev †
Jerome Jacobs
Sharmeen Jaffry
Aaron Johnson ‡
Glenn Jakobsen
Anzhela Kalsynova Δ
Zoe Kandakai
Yi Ting Kao
Mary Kelly
Haneul Kim
Minchae Kim †
Leslie Kimura
Ipek Kirac
Sharla Kirkpatrick ‡
Rami Koutoubi
Brittany Kraft
Irene Kwon †
Desiree Labor
Jacqueline Larson ‡
Tsz Ying Lau
Elizabeth Lawton
Quynh Le
Owen Leary Ω
Bethany Leavitt
Jong Sun Lee
Sae-Jin Lee
Kimberly Leon
Saylor Lewtschenko
Lin Li
Jina Lim
Yusu Liu
Greta List †
Campbell Loi †
Stephanie Lopez
Avery Lopez
Nellely Lopez-Mendez ‡
Jade Lovett
Peyton Luiz
Ivone Lurssen
Parmida Maghsoudlou
Shahidul Mannan
Constance Maranjian †
Noah Markey
Mayor Manlapid
Jessica Marquez Sanchez Christopher Martins
Akshara Neelesh Masurkar
Lauren McCabe
Nick McCarthy-Belash †
Mia McKinney
Tamana Mehrzai
Pooja Menon
Miranda Mergens
Charis Miller
Monica Moore ‡
Samantha Moreno-Ulibarri
Lydia Moriku
Shania Morris
Aysha Muzaffar
Shelby Ann Myers
Hadi Nadali
Meredith Nailor
Jill Naylor
Lance Nelson ‡
Rylee Nelson
Amanda Nengel
Devon Newman †
Navid Nickpour
Jalen Nix Ω
Aidan Novo
Jessica OBrien
Kendra Offiaeli
Oyinkan Olagbegi
Claudia Olszewski
Jada Owens ‡
Marita Passero Δ
Rashi Patel
Emily Pavano
Quentel Penn
Rasheeda Persue
Laura Peters
Kira Philips
Erin Pickert
Brock Polnaszek
Yunhan Qiu
Aseel Rafat †
Lauren Ranney
Lily Rayor
Marco Reyes ‡
Ambree Robinson ‡
Idalis Rivera-Ramirez
Aliana Rodriguez Acevedo
Vanessa Roseau
Claren Ruth
Kristen Safier
Aqsa Saleem
Sarai Sales ‡
Farbod Salehi
Jane Sapeg
Jennifer Schenkenfelder
Isabella Schultz
Ané Scott ‡
Emma Seymour Δ
Ishan Shah
Sonal Sharma
Yasmin Shaikh Ω
Michelle Sheen
Carsen Shumaker
Calista Sicard
Shirley Sikder
Ceilidh Smith
Naja Smith
Theesitha Srikanth
Ashley Stacy-Boddapati
Abigail Stengel
Jake Stevens
Joel Straus
Yizhe Sun
Joyce Sunday
Ronald Tanner
Olivia Taylor ‡
Rebekah Taylor-Wiseman
Emely Tejada Jaquez
Dana-Marie Thomas
Lauren Thomas ‡
Valeria Tierney
Elshaday Timkat
Joellyn Townsend
Anne Trainer
Sapphire Tubbs
Nailah Tucker Ω
Thin Thin Tun
Marymar Vacio Lazalde ‡
Michael Vallerie
Alyssa Vecchio Ω
Yuliya Velhan †
Yana Verbova
Guenevere Vogel
Yufu Wang
Jessica Warbrick
Mohammad Warrad
Jasmine Warren ‡
Ruby Wells
Danielle Whisnant †
Thomas White
Arin Whitman
Andrei Williams Hanna
Seble Wolde
Roxanne Wood
Naniel Woode
Zhouwenqi Xu
James Young
Xinran Yu
Saadman Zaman Ω
Yueyang Zhang
Mehak Zaidi
‡ Health Equity Scholar
† 5th Year UG/MPH
Δ MPH/MPA
** 5th Year UG/MPH
* Online MPH Program
Ω Accelerated MPH Program