Every quarter, UW graduate student research assistants get involved in our projects to develop standard operating procedures, support the participant recruitment process, and conduct data collection and analysis activities that are crucial to the success of the study design, process, and outcomes. These opportunities allow student researchers to learn about the institutional research landscape, and to develop academic depth and skills in their chosen discipline.<\/p>\n
Meet the students working on Global WACh\u2019s research portfolio this fall!<\/p>\n
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Asiya Ahmed<\/strong><\/p>\n Asiya is an undergraduate student majoring in Medical Anthropology and Global Health.\u00a0 She is working with Dr. Keshet Ronen and the Somali Health Board on a project that aims to understand barriers to COVID-19 testing in the Somali community and identify approaches to improve health equity in King County\u2019s testing strategy.<\/p>\n Naziat Carimo<\/strong><\/p>\n Naziat is a MPH student in the Department of Global Health. She is a practicum trainee under the guidance of Dr. Sylvia LaCourse on the PEDS TB trial to master data management skills in global academic research.<\/p>\n Esther Choo, MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n Esther is a PhD student in the Department of Global Health. She is working with Dr. Jennifer Unger, on the Mobile WACh NEO trial to scale up a SMS intervention in Kenya that addresses a crucial gap in supporting mothers to care for their neonates and seek care when needed.<\/p>\n Anupa Gewali<\/strong><\/p>\n Anupa is a MPH student in the Department of Global Health. She is supporting Dr. Keshet Ronen\u2019s IMAGINE study that is developing a social media-based group counseling intervention to prevent perinatal depression in adolescents in the Seattle area.<\/p>\n Micaela Haglund<\/strong><\/p>\n Micaela is a MPH student in the Department of Global Health. She is supporting the launching of the PrIMA-Extension study, led by Dr. Jillian Pintye, that is quantifying PrEP exposure in infants born to mothers of the PrIMA study cohort and evaluating health outcomes through the child\u2019s fifth birthday.<\/p>\n Wenwen Jiang, MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n Wenwen is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology. She is supporting Drs. Alison Drake, Brandon Guthrie, and Keshet Ronen across three projects that involve data management, data analysis,\u00a0and manuscript writing on HIV-related studies seeking to improve testing. She is also contributing to the COVID-19 daily literature search and article summarization with Dr. Brandon Guthrie and the UW MetaCenter for Pandemic Preparedness.<\/p>\n Brooks Morgan, MSPH<\/strong><\/p>\n Brooks is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology. He is working with Dr. Judd Walson on CHAIN Network, a multi-site cohort study to identify clinical, social,\u00a0and behavioral characteristics of children under 2 at risk of death during and after hospitalization.<\/p>\n Jillian Neary, MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n Jillian is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology. She is working with Drs. Grace John-Stewart, Kristin Beima-Sofie, and Irene Njuguna on a study to support adolescents to transition to adult HIV care in Kenya.<\/p>\n Alexandra Price<\/strong><\/p>\n Alexandra is a MPH student in the Department of Global Health. She is working with Dr. Kristin Beima-Sofie on a supplemental study to support adolescents to transition to adult HIV care in Kenya.<\/p>\n Shawon Riffat Ara, MBBS, MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n Shawon is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology. She is analyzing quantitative data utilized by a study led by Dr. Arianna Means that is evaluating the frequency with which health providers in limited-resource settings deviate from trained pediatric treatment guidelines, and factors that influence deviation in order to improve the quality of pediatric care and health outcomes.<\/p>\n Kirk Tickell, MBBS, MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n Kirk is a PhD student in the Department of Global Health. He is serving as the Lead Epidemiologist for the CHAIN Network, a global research network focused on optimizing the management and care of sick and undernourished children to improve growth and survival.<\/p>\n Adino Tsegaye, MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n Adino is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology. He is supporting the CHAIN Network\u2019s COVID-19 surveillance project in a data management role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every quarter, UW graduate student research assistants get involved in our projects to develop standard operating procedures, support the participant recruitment process, and conduct data collection and analysis activities that are crucial to the success of the study design, process, and outcomes. These opportunities allow student researchers to learn about the institutional research landscape, and…<\/p>\n
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