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- Seri Link Anderson
- Email: slink3@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Health Policy and Management
Dissertation proposal successfully defended, April 2017
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Room B001 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Health policy; improving the quality of reproductive health care; unintended pregnancy; and computer simulation.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Carolyn Halpern, Maternal and Child Health
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- Megan Barry
- Email: mbarry19@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Maternal and Child Health
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Room B001 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- TBD
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Carolyn Halpern, Maternal and Child Health
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- Katherine Barrett
- Email: barrettk@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
Dissertation proposal successfully defended, April 2016
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E. Franklin Breezeway |
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- Research focus:
- Developmental origins of obesity; early childhood feeding environment; and weaning and complementary foods.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Margaret Bentley, Nutrition and Amanda Thompson, Anthropology
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- Courtney Boen, M.P.H., Ph.D.
- Email: courtney.boen@gmail.com
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology
Dissertation successfully defended, March 2017
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- Research focus:
- Racial health disparities across the life course; social determinants of health; racial wealth inequality; and socioeconomic mobility.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Anthony Perez and Y. Claire Yang, Sociology
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- Katrina Branecky
- Email: braneckl@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 232 W. Rosemary |
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- Research focus:
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Inequality and health; and the influence of demographic factors on doctor-patient interactions.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Y. Claire Yang, Sociology
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- David Braudt
- Email: braudt@unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 218 W. Rosemary |
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- Research focus:
- Social stratification; population health; education; quantitative methods (with a particular interest in structural equation modeling with latent variables); and the integration of genetics in social science research.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Kenneth Bollen, Psychology and Sociology
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- Alyssa Browne
- Email: alyssarb@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 220 W. Rosemary |
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- Research focus:
- TBD
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Lisa Pearce, Sociology
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- Maia Call
- Email: mcall@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Geography
Dissertation proposal successfully defended, April 2015
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Room 101B W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
- Population-environment interactions; environmental determinants of migration; and spatial demography.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Michael Emch and Clark Gray, Geography
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- Alexis Dennis, M.P.H.
- Email: acdennis@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room B001 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Social determinants of health; social stratification; and life course studies.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Robert Hummer, Sociology and Allison Aiello, Epidemiology
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- Marlous de Milliano
- Email: marlous@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Public Policy
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Room B001 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Impact of social assistance on quality of life, with a focus on cash transfer programmes; social support and social networks; and social infrastructure and service provision.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Ashu Handa, Public Policy and Clare Barrington, Health Behavior
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- Nathan Dollar
- Email: ntdollar@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room B001 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
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Migrant health; relationship between international migration, labor market incorporation, and morbidity and mortality; the role of the state in mitigating occupational hazards; and regional variation in regulation of labor markets.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Jacqueline Hagan and Robert Hummer, Sociology
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- Achsah Dorsey
- Email: afdorsey@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Anthropology
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E. Franklin Breezeway |
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- Research focus:
- Differential exposure and its effects on sex differences in the health and wellbeing of children.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Linda Adair, Nutrition and Amanda Thompson, Anthropology
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- Samuel Fishman
- Email: samfish@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology
Dissertation proposal successfully defended, May 2017
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Room 256 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Fertility, family, health, and aging: the effect of advanced maternal age in children's test scores.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. S. Philip Morgan and Robert Hummer Sociology
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- Danielle Gartner
- Email: danirose@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Epidemiology
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Room 203 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Inequality and health; social and spatial epidemiology; food access, security, and sovereignty; community-based research methodologies; and reproduction.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Drs. Whitney Robinson, Epidemiology and Robert Hummer Sociology
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- Isaura Godinez
- Email: isaurag@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Anthropology
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E. Franklin Breezeway |
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- Research focus:
- Migration and health: development of metabolic syndrome among Mexicans of indigenous Purepecha descent in the U.S. and Mexico.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Linda Adair, Nutrition and Amanda Thompson, Anthropology
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- Varun Goel
- Email: varungoel123@gmail.com
Graduate Student, Geography
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Room 101K W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
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Multi-level population and environmental factors impacting diarrhoeal disease transmission in Bangladesh; spatial epidemiology and spatial statistics.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Michael Emch, Geography
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- Anna Grummon
- Email: agrummon@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Health Behavior
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Room 3100 E. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Design and evaluation of health-related programs and policies; obesity prevention; statistical and econometric methods for policy-evaluation; combining population and behavioral sciences to study health behaviors and outcomes.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Barry Popkin and Lindsey Smith Taillie, Nutrition
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- Iliya Gutin
- Email: igutin@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room B001 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
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Chronic disease morbidity and mortality among young and middle-aged adults; formation of health behaviors and beliefs in early life; biomarkers and health metrics; social and health inequality over the life course.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Robert Hummer, Sociology
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- George Hayward
- Email: georgemhayward@unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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E. Franklin Breezeway |
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- Research focus:
- Religious differences and outcomes during adolescence; marriage, cohabitation, relationships, and sexuality; family structure, parenthood, and childrearing
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Lisa Pearce, Sociology
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- Douglas Hopping
- Email: doughopp@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Geography
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Room 101G W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
- Determinants of migration; migration and social stratification; and population environment interactions.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Clark Gray, Geography
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- Johanna (Hannah) Jahnke, M.A.
- Email: hjahnke@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Anthropology
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E. Franklin Breezeway |
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- Research focus:
- Developmental origins of health and disease, specifically in Ecuador.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Margaret Bentley, Nutrition and Amanda Thompson, Anthropology
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- Mark Janko, Ph.D.
- Email: janko@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Geography
Dissertation successfully defended, June 2017
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Room 302 W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
- Spatial and molecular epidemiology of infectious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Michael Emch, Geography
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- Moira Johnson
- Email: johnsomp@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 203 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Social determinants of health; life course studies; and biological and social interactions.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris, Sociology
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- Nicole Kahn, M.Ed.
- Email: nkahn@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Maternal and Child Health
Dissertation proposal successfully defended, March 2017
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Room 203 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
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Sexual experiences and health outcomes of populations with disabilities in the U.S., from adolescence through early adulthood
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Carolyn Halpern, Maternal and Child Health
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- Smisha Kaysin, Ph.D.
- Email: smishaa@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Maternal and Child Health
Dissertation successfully defended, April 2017
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Room 101M W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
- The evaluation of maternal and child health programs, especially programs employing mobile tools for service delivery; and supply-side determinants of demand for reproductive health services in Bangladesh.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Sian Curtis, Maternal and Child Health
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- Corinna Keeler
- Email: cykeeler@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Geography
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Room 101D W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
- Spatial analysis of social and environmental factors affecting malaria transmission in Central Africa.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Michael Emch, Geography
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- Eunsoo Timothy Kim, MSPH
- Email: timkim@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Maternal and Child Health
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Room 101I W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
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MCH program evaluation using mixed methods; implementation science; maternal/neonatal health and survival; the effect of contextual factors on health; skilled care and continuum of care throughout pregnancy, birth and after delivery; health systems strengthening.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Kavita Singh Ongechi, Maternal and Child Health
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- Ricardo Martinez- Schuldt
- Email: rdmart@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 203 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Patterns, causes, and consequences of unauthorized migration, migration and health, immigrant incorporation, and social stratification.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Jacqueline Hagan, Sociology
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- Elizabeth (Libby) McClure
- Email: emcclure@unc.edu
Graduate Student, Epidemiology
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E. Franklin Breezeway |
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- Research focus:
- Neighborhood-level and structural factors contributing to health disparities; spatial epidemiology.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Allison Aiello, Epidemiology and Michael Emch, Geography
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- Shaina Mitchell
- Email: shainam@email.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Biostatistics
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Room 6204 E. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Health disparities in obesity and cardiovascular disease; effects of modernization and the media on health; development of statistical models and methods; and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases through changes in modifiable lifestyle factors, like diet and physical activity.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Penny Gordon- Larsen, Nutrition and Amy Herring, Biostatistics
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- Max Reason
- Email: mreason@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 222 W. Rosemary |
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- Research focus:
- Social inequality; social stressors and health; and biomarker data.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Liana Richardson, Sociology
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- Bianka Reese
- Email: bmreese@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Maternal and Child Health
Dissertation proposal successfully defended, February 2017
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Room 203 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Social determinants and consequences of adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Carolyn Halpern, Maternal and Child Health
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- Amelia Rock
- Email: ameliacr@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Health Behavior
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Room 101H W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
- Socio-cultural and structural determinants of sexual and reproductive health, especially gender and economic opportunity; HIV prevention and access to treatment and care; and evaluation of social and structural interventions, e.g. cash transfer programs.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Clare Barrington, Health Behavior
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- Renee Ryberg
- Email: rryberg@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 224 W. Rosemary |
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- Research focus:
- Inequality and the transition to adulthood, including education, employment, and family formation, in an international comparative framework.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Drs. Lisa Pearce and Kathleen Mullan Harris, Sociology
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- Anna Rybinska
- Email: annar@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 203 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Fertility in developed countries; motherhood postponement; childlessness and assisted reproductive techniques; and family policies.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. S. Philip Morgan, Sociology
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- Kristen Schorpp, Ph.D.
- Email: schorpp@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology
Dissertation successfully defended, April 2017
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Room 216 W. Rosemary |
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- Research focus:
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Aging and life course processes; health inequalities; and social stratification.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Y. Claire Yang, Sociology
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- Samuel Sellers, Ph.D.
- Email: spseller@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Curriculum for Environment and Ecology
Dissertation successfully defended, April 2017
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Room 103 W. Cameron |
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- Research focus:
- Population- environment issues examining the efficacy of initiatives that combine natural resource conservation and changes in management strategies with family planning and reproductive health services.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Richard Bilsborrow, Biostatistics and Pamela Jagger, Public Policy
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- Alison Swiatlo, M.P.H.
- Email: aswiatlo@live.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Maternal and Child Health
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Room B001 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- Adolescent health; longitudinal patterns of intimate partner violence; and sexual minority health.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Carolyn Halpern, Maternal and Child Health
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- Julia Ward
- Email: jbward10@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Epidemiology
Dissertation proposal successfully defended, November 2016
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E. Franklin Breezeway |
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- Research focus:
- Intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic position; racial disparities in mental health and cardiovascular disease; and social and nutritional determinants of health.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Allison Aiello, Epidemiology
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- Joshua Wassink
- Email: joshuawassink@gmail.com
Graduate Student, Sociology
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Room 203 W. Franklin |
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- Research focus:
- International Migration; return migration; health and illness; race-ethnicity; and discrimination.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Jacqueline Hagan, Sociology and Krista Perreira, Public Policy
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- Rachel Wilbur
- Email: rachel_wilbur@med.unc.edu
Graduate Student, Anthropology
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E. Franklin Breezeway |
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- Research focus:
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Social determinants of disease; relationship between the gut microbiome and infectious disease; diabetes.
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Amanda Thompson, Anthropology and Allison Aiello, Epidemiology
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