Current PhD Students | Environmental Health
April Ballard
Email: april.ballard@emory.edu
From: Cox’s Creek, Kentucky
Year Entered Program: 2018
Previous Degrees: BA, Biology and Spanish Language and Literature, Transylvania University (2014); MPH, Environmental Health and Epidemiology, University of Kentucky (2017)
Research Interests: WASH, gender, and climate change; rural and vulnerable populations; novel research measure and method development
Steph Bellman
Email: smcamp5@emory.edu
From: Wildwood, Missouri
Year Entered Program: 2020
Previous Degrees: BS Molecular and Cellular Biology and BS Animal Sciences, Auburn University (2017)
Research Interests: Infectious disease, vector borne disease, climate change, child health
Jhanel Chew
Email: jhanel.chew@emory.edu
From: Uniondale, NY
Year Entered Program: 2021
Previous Degrees: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Environmental Engineering (2013); M.S., Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Environmental Health) (2017)
Research Interests: WASH; gender; epidemiology; mixed methods; infectious disease; enteric pathogens
Oscar de Leon
Email: odeleon@emory.edu
From: Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Year Entered Program: 2020
Previous Degrees: BS Biochemistry and Microbiology
Research Interests: Urban and peri urban environments, air pollution, health disparity, effects of commuting in exposure and health outcomes, remote sensing, micro-level sensing, alternative transportation modes, multimodal transportation
Frank Glover
Email: feglove@emory.edu
From: Albany, GA
Year Entered Program: 2018
Previous Degrees: BS Biochemistry and German Studies, Boston College
Research Interests: Environmental toxicants and hypertension, reproductive outcomes, health disparities, maternal and child health
Sabrina Sharmin Haque
Email: sshaque@emory.edu
From: Suffolk, Virginia
Year Entered Program: 2017
Previous Degrees: BS, Neuroscience and Public Health, College of William and Mary; MPH, Environmental Health Sciences with Certificate in Global Health, Columbia University
Research Interests: Water resource management, climate, WASH, nutrition, food security, international development
Yajun He
Email: yajun.he@emory.edu
From: Changsha, China
Year Entered Program: 2021
Previous Degrees: BS in Medical Laboratory Science, Central South University; MSPH in Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Emory University
Research Interests: Computational toxicology, high-throughput omics data analysis, developmental exposure and birth outcomes, neurological diseases
Ian Hennessee
Email: ian.patrick.hennessee@emory.edu
From: Atlanta, Georgia
Year Entered Program: 2018
Previous Degrees: BA, Sociology, Emory University (2010); MPH, Global Epidemiology, Emory University (2015)
Research Interests: Infectious disease ecology, vector borne disease, climate change, spatial epidemiology
Sydney Hubbard
Email: sydney.corinne.hubbard@emory.edu
From: Lancaster, Ohio
Year Entered Program: 2018
Previous Degrees: BS, Biology, University of Dayton (2009); MPH, Epidemiology, Emory University (2011)
Research Interests: urban WASH, impact evaluations, diarrheal disease, epidemiology
Zhihao Jin
Email: zhihao.jin@emory.edu
From: Shanghai, China
Year Entered Program: 2021
Previous Degrees: BS Hydrology and Water Resources, Wuhan University; MPH Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University
Research Interests: Air pollution, exposure assessment, remote sensing, and climate change.
Frederica Lamar
Email: flamar@emory.edu
From: Atlanta, Georgia
Year Entered Program: 2017
Previous Degrees: BS Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; MSPH Global Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Research Interests: WASH and behavior change interventions in developing nations and resource-limited areas
Brooke Lappe
Email: blappe@emory.edu
From: Farmington, Missouri
Year Entered Program: 2021
Previous Degrees: BS Biological Sciences, University of Missouri (2019), MPH Global Environmental Health, Emory University (2021)
Research Interests: Environmental determinants of infectious disease, climate and health, environmental policy
Zhenjiang Li
Email: zli387@emory.edu
From: Xi'an, China
Year Entered Program: 2019
Previous Degrees: BA Preventive Health, Peking University; MSPH Epidemiology, Peking University; MSPH Environmental Health, Emory University
Research Interests: Application of metabolomics in environmental health with a focus on air pollution
Tszshan Ma
Email: tsz.shan.ma@emory.edu
From: Hong Kong, China
Year Entered Program: 2020
Previous Degrees: BS Biochemistry, University of Hong Kong; MS Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University; MS Epidemiology, Harvard University
Research Interests: Air pollution, Environmental Epidemiology, Application of metabolomics
Sarahna Azaria Moyd
Email: smoyd@emory.edu
From: Phoenix, AZ
Year Entered Program: 2019
Previous Degrees: BS Molecular and Cellular Biology; MPH Maternal and Child Health, University of Arizona
Research Interests: MCH—environmental determinants of human reproduction and early life development, climate and environmental justice, science communication
Stephen Mugel
Email: stephen.mugel@emory.edu
From: Buffalo, NY
Year Entered Program: 2020
Previous Degrees: BS in Biology from Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2013); MS in Zoology from Colorado State University (2020)
Research Interests: Infectious disease, zoonoses, epidemiology, spatial epidemiology, modeling, surveillance, antimicrobial resistance
Natalie Olson
Email: natalie.olson@emory.edu
From: Westlake Village, CA
Year Entered Program: 2021
Previous Degrees: BS in Global Disease Biology, University of California, Davis (2017); MPH in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health (2019)
Research Interests: Infectious disease ecology, transmission-dynamic modeling, environmental justice, One Health, WASH
Hemali H. Oza
Email: hemali.harish.oza@emory.edu
From: Cary, NC
Year Entered Program: 2019
Previous Degrees: BSPH in Environmental Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MS in Environmental Science and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: International WaSH, point-of-use water treatment, climate change, climate impacts, and gender
Elizabeth Tess Sajewski
Email: Elizabeth.tess.sajewski@emory.edu
From: Lloyd Harbor, New York
Year Entered Program: 2017
Previous Degrees: BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University (2013)
Research Interests: Infectious disease dynamics, enteric diseases, WASH, impact of climate change on infectious disease, environmental justice
Julia Silva Sobolik
Email: Julia.sobolik@emory.edu
From: Ashland, Oregon
Year Entered Program: 2017
Previous Degrees: H.B.S Biology, Oregon State University; H.B.A International Studies in Biology, Oregon State University; MPH Global Health, Emory University; MS Microbiology, University of Washington
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, diarrheal diseases, and water quality
Tamara Spikes
Email: tamara.spikes@emory.edu
From: Hampton, Georgia
Year Entered Program: 2021
Previous Degrees: BS in Environmental Science, Spelman College; MS in Geosciences (Water Science concentration), Georgia State University
Research Interests: WASH, environmental justice, climate change, maternal health, and exposure science
Kaitlin Taibl
Email: kaitlin.rene.taibl@emory.edu
From: Irvine, California
Year Entered Program: 2021
Previous Degrees: BS Health Sciences, Chapman University (2017); MSPH Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Emory University (2021)
Research Interests: Life course epidemiology, metabolism-disrupting chemical exposures, cardiometabolic outcomes, exposomics
Ziyin Tang
Email: ziyin.tang@emory.edu
From: Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China
Year Entered Program: 2021
Previous Degree: BM, Preventive Medicine, Southern Medical University (SMU); MPH, Environmental Health, Emory University
Research Interests: Metabolomics; air pollution.
Pei Wen (Millie) Tung
Email: millie.tung@emory.edu
From: Taiwan
Year Entered Program: 2018
Previous Degrees: BS Public Health, Taipei Medical University (2015); MPH Environmental Health Sciences with Certificate in Toxicology, Columbia University (2017)
Research Interests: children’s environmental health re: air pollution and neurodevelopment
Courtney Victor
Email: courtney.m.poulos@emory.edu
From: New Orleans, LA
Year Entered Program: 2020
Previous Degrees: B.S. in Biology from the University of Alabama, MPH in Global Environmental Health from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health
Research Interests: WaSH, Infectious diseases, exposure assessment, epidemiology
Wenhao Wang
Email: wenhao.wang@emory.edu
From: Wuhan, China
Year Entered Program: 2020
Previous Degrees: BS Preventive Medicine, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; MPH Environmental Health, Emory University
Research Interests: Air pollution, remote sensing, machine learning and data science
Wenlu Ye
Email: wenlu.ye@emory.edu
From: China
Year Entered Program: 2017
Previous Degrees: Bachelor of Management, Master of Development Practice
Research Interests: Exposure and health impacts assessment of air pollution and climate change in low- and middle-income counties; implementation science of environmental health policies and interventions
Qingyang Zhu
Email: qingyang.zhu@emory.edu
From: Changzhou, China
Year Entered Program: 2019
Previous Degrees: BS Preventive Medicine, Southeast University; MS Occupational & Environmental Health, Fudan University
Research Interests: Air pollution, exposure science & remote sensing