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.
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
Alvin Thomas
President Elect
Coming Soon!
Contact
Coming Soon!
Sharia M. Ahmed
Past President
Sharia is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Research Association in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology 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
Lisha Lin
Education Co-Chair
Lisha Lin (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on investigating the intricate interplay between the epigenome and health risk factors, including social, psychosocial, and neighborhood structure, with a specific focus on their impact on chronic diseases prevalent among old adults, such as hypertension and dyslipidemia. Her current study interests include creating DNA methylation surrogate measures for multiple cardiovascular disease risk factors, and the effects of early childhood exposure to disadvantaged socioeconomic status on later-life DNA methylation. Lisha obtained her B.M. in Preventive Medicine from Guangzhou Medical University in China in 2018 and subsequently completed her M.P.H in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan in 2020.
Contact
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
lishalin@umich.edu
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
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
Domonique M. Reed
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
Domonique Reed is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology 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
Ami Sedani
Media Co-Chair
Coming Soon!
Contact
Coming Soon!
Ruby Barnard - Mayers
Media Co-Chair
Ruby Barnard-Mayers (she/hers) is a doctoral candidate in the Epidemiology Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her current research focuses on severe maternal morbidities, racial disparities in preterm birth, and cesarean sections. She holds a BA in Mathematics and Anthropology from Grinnell College and an MPH in Epidemiology and Maternal & Child Health from Boston University.
Contact
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
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