The mission of the SER-Student & Post-Doc Committee (SER-SPC) is to facilitate the educational experiences and professional development of students in epidemiology-related disciplines by providing information, resources, and networking opportunities; facilitating student exchange of research ideas; and providing service to the SER and advancing and promoting the SER-SPC.
Alvin Thomas
President
Alvin is a post-doctoral fellow at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Alvin leverages multi-omic, psychometric, and brain imaging data to understand the biology of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. The long-term goal of this line of work is to improve the health of aging populations. Alvin’s other interests include causal inference and deep learning. Alvin earned a BS with honors in Chemistry and Engineering from Washington and Lee University, a MSPH in Global Disease Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served in the AmeriCorps program and remains committed to diminishing poverty through research and service.
Contact
Washington University in St. Louis
School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
NeuroGenomics and Informatics Center
Nedghie Adrien
Past President
Nedghie (she/her) is a post-doctoral research fellow in the CAUSALab at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Nedghie’s work focuses on evaluating pregnancy and infant outcomes following in utero exposure to pharmaceuticals. Her other research interests are the application of analytic methods to quantitatively address mechanisms of systematic bias in observational studies. Nedghie holds a BA in Clinical Psychology from Tufts University, a MPH in Global Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and a PhD in Epidemiology from Boston University’s School of Public Health.
Contact
Harvard University
Department of Epidemiology
Email: nadrien@harvard.edu
Anthony J. Nixon, Jr.
President Elect (Student & Post-Doc Committee)
Anthony J. Nixon, Jr. is a doctoral student in the PhD Public Health Sciences program at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a perinatal epidemiologist who focuses on family health and well-being. His research interests focus on fatherhood and complex social issues during the perinatal period, with a particular emphasis on understanding the impact of fathers’ contribution to maternal, infant, and family health outcomes. He is also interested in exploring the intersection of race, gender, and socioeconomic status in shaping fatherhood experiences and health disparities. His work has included exploratory and descriptive studies in maternal and infant mortality, spatial epidemiology, social epidemiology, social networks, public health surveillance, and access to perinatal & healthcare services. Read more
Contact
Email: nixonanthonyj@wustl.edu
Lisha Lin
Education Co-Chair
Lisha (she/her) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Lisha’s work primarily focuses on utilizing high-dimensional whole genome sequencing data to conduct multi-omics research aimed at exploring the biological mechanisms underlying musculoskeletal disorders such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. Lisha holds a Bachelor of Medicine in Preventive Medicine from Guangzhou Medical University, an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and a PhD in Epidemiological Science from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her previous work examined the interplay between epigenetics and sociodemographic factors across the life course in both older adults and children and adolescents.
Contact
Lisha Lin
Education Co-Chair
Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School
lishalin@hsl.harvard.edu
Xuexin Yu
Education Co-Chair
Xuexin (she/her) is a social epidemiologist and Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research examines life-course economic and psychosocial factors in relation to cognitive aging among older adults across global settings. Xuexin completed her PhD in Epidemiological Science from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and she received her BS in Biology and MSc in Health Policy from Sichuan University, China.
Contact
Contact
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
xy2677@cumc.columbia.edu
Morgan Wolff
Internal Affairs Chair
Morgan Wolff is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Public Health where her research area is nutritional and physical activity/sedentary behavior life course epidemiology. Morgan’s research focuses on health behaviors and the effect they have on aging and/or chronic diseases, such as osteoarthritis. Morgan received her MPH in Epidemiology and her BS in Human Physiology from the University of Iowa in the undergrad-to-grad program.
Contact
Morgan Wolff, MPH
PhD Candidate
University of Iowa College of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
Meghana Shamsunder
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
Meghana is a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and a Senior Analytic Consultant for RWD/RWE research at Panalgo. Meghana’s research focuses on developing, applying, and teaching advanced epidemiological methods for time-varying exposures. She is currently evaluating the impact of staggered policy adoption on population health outcomes using g-estimation within a quasi-experimental framework. As a methodologist, her previous work spans topics including breast cancer, surgery-related patient reported outcomes, COVID-19, mental health research, among other areas. She also holds an MPH from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and a BSPH from UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Contact
Meghana Shamsunder, MPH, BSPH
Doctoral Candidate
CUNY Graduate School
mgshamsunder1@gmail.com
Ami Sedani
Media Co-Chair
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Contact
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Amy Zheng
Media Co-Chair
Amy Zheng is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research area is focused on HIV and tuberculosis and understanding how to improve treatment outcomes for vulnerable populations.
Contact
Boston University School of Public Health
amyzheng@bu.edu
Taylor Mobley
Program Co-Chair
Taylor (he/they) is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, where their research areas include social epidemiology and causal inference methods. They are especially interested in understanding mechanisms through which structural factors such as social policies impact health across the lifecourse. Taylor holds an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Contact
University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
tmmobley@ucla.edu
Gina Nam
Program Co-Chair
Gina recently defended her PhD in Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Her research uses a causal inference approach to examine the association between cancer and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in racially and ethnically diverse populations, addressing the competing risk bias. Her long-term goal is to improve the understanding of chronic diseases in aging populations, particularly in underrepresented communities across the United States. Gina also holds an MPH in Epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.