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.
Sharia M. Ahmed
President
Sharia is an infectious disease epidemiologist and post-doctoral fellow in the Microbial Pathogenesis T32 training program at the University of Utah. Her current work involves developing and validating clinical decision rules for the management of pediatric diarrhea. More broadly, Sharia’s research explores variation in diarrheal disease susceptibility, and how this knowledge can be harnessed to improve health outcomes. Sharia received her PhD in Epidemiology from Oregon State University, MPH in Global Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and BA/BS in Global Studies/Biology from the University of Minnesota.
Contact
University of Utah
Department of Internal Medicine
sharia.m.ahmed@utah.edu
Nedghie Adrien
President Elect
Nedghie Adrien is a doctoral candidate in the Epidemiology Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on identifying risk factors for birth defects and evaluating the safety of exposure to pharmaceutical products during pregnancy. Specifically, she is interested in applying quantitative bias and novel analytic methods to reduce bias in observational studies of medication use during pregnancy. She holds a BA in clinical psychology from Tufts University and MPH in Global Epidemiology from Emory University.
Contact
Boston University School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
Email: nadrien@bu.edu
John Pamplin II
Past President
John R. Pamplin II is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Pamplin is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist who studies the consequences of structural racism and systemic inequity on mental health and substance use outcomes. His program of research investigates drivers of racial patterning in major depression, emerging racial trends in adolescent and adult suicide, and the mental and physical health consequences of the hyper-policing of Black and Brown neighborhoods. Dr. Pamplin’s research further explores policing as a determinant of racial inequities in substance use and carceral outcomes by exploring how variations in police enforcement may lead to differential effectiveness of public health laws, including those intended to reduce harms of the overdose crisis. Dr. Pamplin holds a PhD and MPH, both in Epidemiology, from Columbia University, and a BS in Biology from Morehouse College.
Contact
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
jrp2166@cumc.columbia.edu
Andreas Teferra
Education Co-Chair
Andreas Teferra is a Research Scientist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is interested in translational epidemiologic and population-based research with a focus on underserved and at-risk populations that can inspire health policy and decision-making. He holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from The Ohio State University and an M.S. in Epidemiology from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands).
Contact
Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research
The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital
andreas.teferra@nationwidechildrens.org
Estela Blanco
Education Co-Chair
Estela Blanco (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at the Society and Health Research Center at Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile. She is an environmental epidemiologist focusing on early life health effects of climate change. Estela has also studied arsenic exposure in drinking water in the North of Chile and risk of cancer, early life predictors of cardiovascular health in adolescence and young adulthood, and long-term effects of iron deficiency anemia in infancy. Estela completed her PhD in Public Health at the University of Chile and, previously, earned her Master’s in Latin American Studies and MPH in Epidemiology at San Diego State University, in San Diego, California.
Contact
Claire Adam
Internal Affairs Chair
Claire is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and Community Health Sciences at the University of Montana. Her research is focused on falls with an emphasis on fall prevention and post-fall quality of life in older adults with cognitive impairment. She is broadly interested in research focused on improving health outcomes for people with disabilities. She has a PhD in Public Health from the University of Montana, and a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Washington. She has a BA in Biology and German from Bowdoin College.
Contact
Claire Adam, PhD, DPT
Assistant Professor
Center for Population Health Research
School of Public and Community Health Sciences
University of Montana
Domonique M. Reed
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
Domonique Reed is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and a predoctoral fellow in the NIAID Global HIV Implementation Science T32 Training Program at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. Domonique’s research interest focuses on using novel data science and analytic methods to assess structural drivers of HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa. Domonique received her MPH in Epidemiology from Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and her BS in Community Health from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Contact
Columbia University
Department of Epidemiology
dmr2204@cumc.columbia.edu
Ginna Doss
Media Co-Chair
Ginna (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina where her research area is reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology. She is currently a predoctoral fellow in the Fertility and Reproductive Health Group in the Epidemiology Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Her research focuses on embryonic growth and improvements in the estimation of gestational age. Ginna holds a BS in Biochemistry and MPH from the University of Virginia.
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Epidemiology
ginna.doss@unc.edu
Ruby Barnard - Mayers
Media Co-Chair
Ruby Barnard-Mayers is a doctoral candidate in the Epidemiology Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her current research focuses on using causal inference methods, specifically directed acyclic graphs and simulation models, to enhance our understanding of questions in the perinatal health space. She is especially interested in addressing questions about labor and delivery using causal inference methods. She holds a BA in Mathematics and Anthropology from Grinnell College and an MPH in Epidemiology and Maternal & Child Health from Boston University.
Contact
Rachael Ross
Program Co-Chair
Rachael is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina. Her research focuses on pharmacoepidemiology, pediatric and reproductive epidemiology, and epidemiologic methods for missing data and measurement error. She previously served on the SER Membership and Nomination Committee where she worked to increase participation of masters-level epidemiologists. Rachael earned a BA in neurobiology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPH from Emory University in 2011. After receiving her MPH, she was a research associate at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where her work focused on the epidemiology and outcomes of antimicrobial use in children.
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Epidemiology
rkross@unc.edu
Joelle Atere-Roberts
Program Co-Chair
Joëlle Atere-Roberts a doctoral candidate in social epidemiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and predoctoral fellow in the Biosocial NIH T32 Training Program at the Carolina Population Center. Her current research interests have health equity at its core and aims to understand how social factors underpin racial and ethnic differences in disease outcomes. Her current research aims to measure structural racism over the life course and examine its relationship to poor cardiometabolic health outcomes later in life. Joëlle’s other research interests include the impact of social and structural factors on women’s health, specifically, reproductive and gynecologic health outcomes, and cancer outcomes. She holds a B.S in Biology from Agnes Scott College and an MPH from Georgia State University.
Contact
PhD Candidate | Department of Epidemiology
Biosocial Trainee | Carolina Population Center