current fellows
2021 fellows
Abrania Marrero
Abrania Marrero is a PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Annie Hoang, MPH
Annie Hoang is an an MD candidate at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she is enrolled in the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US).
April Ballard, MPH
April Ballard, MPH is an Environmental Health Science PhD Candidate at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
Azmal Hossan, MA, MSS
Azmal is a PhD student in Sociology and National Research Trainee in Interdisciplinary Training, Education and Research in Food-Energy-Water Systems at Colorado State University.
Carlos Gould, PhD
Carlos Gould is an incoming Stanford Earth Postdoctoral Fellow. He recently defended his PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Cielo Sharkus
Cielo Sharkus is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Dana Williamson, PhD
Dana Williamson is currently an Environmental Health Fellow hosted at the U.S. EPA’s Office of the Science Advisor, Policy & Engagement.
Daniel Carrión, PhD
Dr. Daniel Carrión is an environmental health scientist focused on the intersection of energy, health, and inequalities globally and domestically. He is an incoming faculty member at Yale School of Pubic Health and Yale Center on Climate Change & Health.
Enjoli Hall
Enjoli Hall is a PhD student and Ford Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Gavin Rienne, MPH
Gavin Rienne, MPH is an Epidemiology & Biostatistics PhD candidate at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health.
Jamaji Nwanaji-Enwerem, MD, PhD, MPP
Jamaji C. Nwanaji-Enwerem is a Emergency Medicine Resident Physician at Emory University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Kartik Amarnath, MS
Kartik Amarnath is the Policy Specialist for PUSH Buffalo and a MD and MPH candidate – currently on a leave – at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY.
Krystal Vasquez
Krystal Vasquez is a PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
Lariah Edwards, PhD
Dr. Lariah Edwards is currently an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Lorraine N. Vélez-Torres, MPH
Lorraine N. Vélez-Torres, MPH is a Microbiology PhD Candidate at the University of Puerto Rico – Medical Sciences Campus.
Michelle Gin, MPH
Michelle Gin, MPH is an Environmental Health Supervisor for Community Outreach and Engagement in the Environmental Health Division of Ramsey County Public Health Department in Minnesota.
Misbath Daouda, MPH
Misbath is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.
OreOluwa Badaki, MsEd
OreOluwa Badaki is a PhD Candidate in in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.
Regan Patterson, PhD
Regan F. Patterson is the Transportation Equity Research Fellow at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF).
Rodrigo Alatriste-Diaz
Rodrigo Alatriste-Diaz is a PhD candidate in Development Sociology at Cornell University and researcher at UC Merced’s Community and Labor Center.
Tatiana (Tots) Height, Ed.D.
Tatiana (Tots) Height, Ed.D. received a doctorate in the Agricultural and Extension Education from NC State University.
Theresa Guillette, PhD
Theresa received a Ph.D. in Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Health Sciences from the Medical University of South Carolina. Her dissertation work focused on environmental contaminants and associated health effects in Nile crocodiles. Theresa is currently an Environmental Scientist II at Arcadis.
Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, PhD
Dr. Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
2020 fellows
Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, MPH
Ans Irfan, MD, DrPH, MPH is an adjunct professor at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University.
Ashley Gripper, MPH
Ashley Gripper is a PhD Candidate in the Environmental Health Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Brenda Trejo Rosas, MPH
Brenda M. Trejo Rosas, MPH is a PhD Candidate in the Environmental and Occupational Health Department at The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, where
Brianna VanNoy, MPH
Brianna VanNoy, MPH, is a research associate at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Deniss Martinez, MSc
Deniss Martinez is a PhD Student at UC Davis in the Graduate Group in Ecology. She is also a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
El’gin Avila, MPH, CPH
El’gin Avila, MPH, CPH, is a PhD student studying Industrial Hygiene at the University of Minnesota and the founder of Equitable Health Solutions.
Max Aung, PhD, MPH
Dr. Max Aung is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Environmental Health at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
Mỹ Dzung Chu, PhD, MSPH
MyDzung T. Chu, PhD, MSPH, is the Faculty Investigator at the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies and the Director of the ADAPT (Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research) Coalition at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
