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.
David Fink
President
David Fink, MPH is interested in the influence of social arrangements and interactions on the health and well-being of trauma exposed populations. He is a social epidemiologist who has worked extensively with the US Army, Navy, Marine Corp, National Guard and Reserves investigating the psychological sequela of combat using a life course perspective. His primary focus is on (i) the etiology of mental disorders, particularly substance use disorders; (ii) development of a theoretical framework to explain the progression of co-occurring substance use and mental disorders with a goal of (iii) preventing onset and improving treatment seeking behaviors. He is currently pursuing his PhD in epidemiology at Mailman School of Public Health in the NIDA-funded substance abuse training program.
Contact
Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
dsf2130@columbia.edu
@DavidSFink
Jennifer Stuart
Past President
Jennifer Stuart is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her doctoral thesis investigates hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and maternal cardiovascular disease in the Nurses’ Health Study II cohort. She also currently serves as research fellow and data manager on a PCORI-funded randomized control trial of a lifestyle intervention among women with a recent history of preeclampsia conducted by Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Jennifer holds a BA from Franklin & Marshall College and an MSc in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health
Contact
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
jstuart@mail.harvard.edu
Lindsay Pool
President-Elect
Lindsay is a social epidemiologist who studies the association between economic status and health (and the research methods necessary to study an often bidirectional association). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as part of a cardiovascular disease disparities research network. She has a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Michigan, an MPH in epidemiology from Emory University and a BS in social policy from Northwestern University, and has worked previously at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Contact
University of Michigan
lpool@umich.edu
Sylvia Badon
Education Chair
Sylvia is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Her research focuses on maternal lifestyle before and during pregnancy, specifically physical activity and sedentary behavior, and its associations with various maternal and child health outcomes using several birth cohorts in the United States and abroad. She received an MS in epidemiology and biostatistics from Northwestern University and an AB in biology from the University of Chicago.
Contact
University of Washington
sbadon@uw.edu
Seth Kuranz
Internal Affairs Chair
Seth is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). He received an MPH from BUSPH in 2012 and a BA in anthropology from Arizona State University. His research interests include the influence of neighborhood, school, and family environments on substance abuse outcomes and differences between sexual minority and heterosexual young adults.
Contact
Boston University
skuranz@bu.edu
Deirdre Green
Media Chair
Deirdre Green is a Doctoral Student in the Occupational Injury Prevention and Research Training Program in the Environmental Health Sciences Department at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. She holds an MS in Occupational and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa and a BS in Industrial Technology from Iowa State University. Her research interests include injury epidemiology and occupational health. Her research focuses on the relation between workload and injury outcomes among janitors in the Twin Cities.
Contact
University of Minnesota
gree1982@umn.edu
Jennifer Richards
Program Co-Chair
Jennifer Richards is pursuing a PhD in perinatal and pediatric epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Her research interests are in maternal and child health, focusing on the effects of adverse perinatal, birth, and social factors on children’s health and cognitive development. She received an MPH in epidemiology from Emory University in 2012, and undergraduate degrees in biology and government from the University of Virginia in 2007. Before attending Emory University, Jennifer worked on science policy staff of the National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation.
Contact
Emory University
Department of Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health
jennifer.richards@emory.edu
Chenan Zhang
Program Co-Chair
Chenan Zhang is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Before that, she completed her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Chicago’s Department of Public Health Sciences, an MS in Marine Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS in Biochemistry and Zoology from the University of Florida. Her dissertation work focused on the role of telomere length as a prospective biomarker of cancer risk, and her current research involves two topics in genetic epidemiology of cancer: genetic variants associated with active surveillance failure for prostate cancer, and telomere length-related genetic susceptibility to pediatric glioma.
Contact
University of Chicago
chenan@uchicago.edu