Essay, Thesis, and Dissertation Titles from 2025-26 Graduates
Abirova, Assel (EOH), "Air Pollution Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Kazakhstan and the United States"
Ajibo, Doris (EPIDEM, "Effects of Maternal Exposures on Placental Drug Metabolizing Enzymes and Transporters- A LITERATURE REVIEW"
Al-Atassi, Reem (EPIDEM), "Potential to Influence Future Menopausal Symptoms: Prospective Associations with Cardiovascular Health from the Study of Women’s Health across the Nation"
Albert, Samantha (HUGEN), "Transcriptional Changes in Mice Immune Cells During Salmonella Infection Using Single-Cell RNA Sequencing"
Alobireed, Abdulrahman (EOH), "Breathing the Burden: An Integrated Assessment of Air Pollution Exposure and Respiratory Health Risks in Southwestern Pennsylvania"
Armstrong, Joseph Ryan (BIOST), "Predictive PM2.5 Air Pollution Modeling"
Arunkumar, Lakshita (HUGEN), "Spatial Transcriptomics Revealfs Spatiotemporal Gene Expression Changes During Liver Regeneration in Mice"
Banks-Tibbs, Tabitha (HUGEN), "In situ cryo-ET as a marker of mitochondrial bioenergetics"
Bapat, Sarika (EPIDEM), "Does Bias Education Work? Evaluating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Modules in an Emergency Medical Services Certification Curriculum"
Barreto-Vazquez, Delmaliz (EOH), “Factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence and vaccination intentions in children within the CCREOH cohort"
Beach, Elise (IDM), "Susceptibility and Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in North American Wildlife: A Literature Review"
Becker, Kara (EPIDEM), "West Nile Virus Risk in Allegheny County, PA: Summary of 2025 Surveillance"
Begovic, Ella (IDM), “Investigating the lenacapavir susceptibility of HIV-1 capsid amino acid substitutions found in LEN-naïve and LEN-experienced people living with HIV-1”
Bell, Yamira (MULTI), "Panther Clinic: An Exploration of A Student-Run Free Clinic"
Berman, Elyse (BCHS), "A Qualitative Perspective on the Titan Assistance Program: Analysis of Interviews from Team Members, District Staff, and Families"
Bilden, Rebecca (HPM), "Evaluating Provider-Level Interventions to Increase Willingness to Prescribe Buprenorphine as Medication for Opioid Use Disorder"
Black, Clare (HPM), "Abstract the Role of Litigation in Expanding Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in American Correctional Facilities"
Blattner, Robert (EPIDEM), "Examining the effect of buprenorphine dosage on healthcare outcomes in a Western Pennsylvania healthcare network"
Bo, Na (BIOST), "New methods to analyze heterogeneous treatment effects and identify causal subgroups with survival outcomes"
Bodner, Stephanie (IDM), “Designing Equitable Maternal Syphilis Vaccine Delivery Pathways for Pregnant People Experiencing Homelessness”
Boyd, Kristina (EPIDEM), "Development and Assessment of a Central Appalachian Social Vulnerability Index"
Brunick, McKenna (HUGEN), "The Carceral Footprint: Mapping Incarceration’s Long-Term Effects on Health"
Buckner, Ashawnti (HPM), "Federal Pathways to Strengthening Palliative Care: The Case for the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act"
Butler, Rachel (HPM), "Assessing Healthy Days at Home as a Population Health Indicator in Aging, Serious Illness, and Family Caregiving"
Byars, Raven (HPM), "Operationalizing and Reporting Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits"
Cai, Yicheng (EPIDEM), "ADHD Polygenic Score and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults"
Campos Sanchez, Jose David (HUGEN), "Evaluating Supervised and Unsupervised Multi-Omics Frameworks to Detect Cerebral Disease Signatures in X-ALD"
Canady, Briana (BCHS), "The Impact of Green Space Access on Adolescent Mental Health: A Critical Literature Synthesis"
Candalor, Samantha (HPM), "Unregulated: Federal Data Privacy in the United States"
Cao, Qing (EOH), "Harnessing the Anthrax Toxin Protein Delivery System as a Platform for Targeted Tumor Therapy"
Case, Nicholas (BIOST), "Penalized Regression for Inverse Probability Weight Estimation in High-Dimensional Time-Varying Settings: An Application to Post-Cardiac Arrest Care"
Cavanaugh, Catherine (HPM), "Legal Ethics in AI Healthcare for Brain Computer Interfaces: A Policy Analysis"
Ceglarz, Michael (BCHS), "Clairton Cooke: A Community-Driven Nutrition Intervention to Combat Food Insecurity in Clairton, Pennsylvania"
Chang, Hung-Ching (BIOST), "Statistical and computational methods to decipher homogeneous and heterogeneous structure from multi-omics and single-cell technology"
Chen, Jianci (EPIDEM), "Title Page "Heart Fat Depots and Coronary Artery Calcification: from the ERA JUMP Study"
Cheng, Jianjia (EPIDEM), "Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Longitudinal Changes in Late-life Cognitive Function"
Cheng, Lingyun (EOH), "Air Pollution, Public Health, and Industrial City Transformation: A Comparative Study of PM2.5 Control in Pittsburgh and Shijiazhuang"
Chesmer, Sophia (HUGEN), "Sociodemographic, Environmental and Lifestyle Differences Between C9ORF72 Mutation Carriers and Non-Carriers with ALS in the CDC National Registry"
Chin, Alison (BCHS), “Forging a Hopeful Future: Examining the Associations of Youth Psychological Empowerment and Violence in Pittsburgh Adolescents”
Choudhary, Aditi (IDM), "Bridging the Gap: Equitable Patient Education as a Strategy for Infection Prevention"
Collins, Peyton (EPIDEM), "Non-Occupational Coal Mining Exposure and Non-Respiratory Outcomes in Appalachian Communities: A Literature Review"
Conte, Elizabeth (EOH), "A comparative study of Alleghany County Health Department data vs. US Trends for the revised elevated blood lead reference level"
Cook, Lindsay (HUGEN), "Evaluation of Rapid Whole Genome Sequencing in the NICU and CICU: Implications for Policy and Practice"
Crane, Jordan Noelle (EPIDEM), "Hospital-Onset Candidemia Reporting: Source Attribution and Surveillance Implications"
Crilley, Jacob (MULTI), "Retrospective Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of a Nurse-Driven Electrolyte Replacement Protocol in Critically Ill Adult Patients"
Curley Crimmins, Margaret (EOH), "Chronic Disease Burden Among Wildland Firefighters: Occupational Exposures, Chemical Hazards, and Gaps in Protective Measures"
Dani, Julia (EPIDEM), "The Neurotoxic Effects of ENDs/E-Cigarettes: A Systematic Review"
Davenport, Spencer (BIOST), "Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency: Transformer-Based Natural Language Processing Models for Identifying Suicide Risk Across Social Media Platforms"
Dawson, Jordan (BCHS), "From Concept to Community: Design, Implementation, and Feasibility of The Wellness Blueprint, a Community-Based Health Education and Wellness Project"
DeVine, LaNita (EPIDEM), "Climate Impacts on Annual Tick Prevalence of Anaplasmosis in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: An Exploratory Analysis"
Dib, Basma (EPIDEM), "Innovative Causal Inference Approaches for Studying the Safety of Antiretroviral Therapy During Pregnancy"
Doerger, Jerome (HUGEN), "Screening Guideline Compliance in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia: Insights from the Development and Utilization of a Patient Registry"
Dougherty, Michelle (BCHS), "Examining the Relationships Between Housing Eviction and Alcohol-Related Harms Using Spatial and Participatory Qualitative Methods"
Earle, Brian (HUGEN), "Characterizing Referral Pathways to Pediatric Genetics Consultation After Initial Autism Diagnosis Within the UPMC Health System"
Falgione, Julia (BCHS), "Beyond Nutritional Adequacy: A Participatory Framework for Food Is Medicine Menu Design in Pregnancy"
Flowers, Sarah (BCHS), "Childhood Obesity in Appalachia: A Health Equity Perspective"
Francis, Lily (HUGEN), "Interrelations Between Hearing Loss and Incident Dementia"
Garcia, Reagan (EPIDEM), "Identifying best intervention strategies to mitigate perceived physical fatigability severity among older adults with obesity: Leveraging data from the EMPOWER Lifestyle Trial"
Gately, Joseph (HPM), "How Socioeconomic Status Affects Multiple Sclerosis Management"
Gerberick, Abigail (IDM), "The role of B cell-mediated trans infection in HIV-1 pathogenesis"
Ghosh, Archisha (BCHS), "The Campus Sexual Violence Prevention Programming Post COVID-19 Landscape"
Giles, Lauren (HUGEN), "Landscape of the Pediatric Cancer Predisposition Workforce in the United States"
Goldson, Sari (HUGEN), "Evolving Barriers to Eye Care: Multi-Year Findings from a Patient Navigator Program in an Academic Ophthalmology Department"
Graham, Jada (EPIDEM), "Dispenser Discourse: Investigating Automated vs Manual Alcohol-Based Hand Rub Dispensers in a Healthcare Setting"
Gresser, Robert (EOH), "Fire Department Decontamination Protocols: Are they reducing toxicant exposures for ALL first responders?"
Gu, Xuelin (BIOST), "Causal Inference with Intermediate Outcomes: Methods for Principal Stratum Identification and Estimation of Principal Causal Effects"
Guo, Drake (IDM), "Comparative analysis of infection dynamics between historical and novel circulating strains of Oropouche in human skin"
Gurung, Roshni (EPIDEM), "Postpartum Depression and Its Implications for Early Child Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: A Literature Review"
Heberger, John (EPIDEM), "Updating Empirical Evidence for Injury Burden Estimates to Improve Safety in the US Mining Industry: Assessing Injuries by Body Region"
Heda, Gagan (HUGEN), "Integrative Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Reveals Th9-Related Signatures in Atherosclerotic Plaque-infiltrating cells"
Henderson, Sasha (BCHS), "Upstander: Development of a bystander intervention education program at the University of Pittsburgh"
Herrold, Emily (BCHS), “Recommendations for Physical Activity Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease Among Latino Populationsin the U.S. Given Changes in Immigration Policy”
Hilliard, Anna (HUGEN), "Health outcomes of infants with mild ventriculomegaly discovered on fetal ultrasound"
Hodges, Noelle (IDM), "Preventing CAUTIs: Exploring Interventions and Opportunities for Critically Ill Patients"
Hoffman, Samantha Jo (IDM), "Exploring Healthcare Providers' Perspectives on Intervention Opportunities to Improve HIV PrEP Utilization for Cisgender Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence"
Hogan, Natalie (EPIDEM), "Age at Diagnosis and Survival in Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Comparative Analysis from the VOYAGER Consortium"
Holden, Jacqueline (IDM), "Ancestral effects of antibody dependent enhancement of dengue virus in the dermis"
Huang, Penghui (BIOST), “Integrative Cellular Deconvolution for Omics Data”
Hundi, Nishitha (EPIDEM), "Understanding Structural and Load-Dependent Arterial Stiffness: Determinants, Epidemiologic Evidence, and Connections to Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Literature Review"
Ilias Hossain, Mohammad (EPIDEM), "Racial Disparities in Fatal Police Encounters Involving Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in the United States: A 2023 Analysis"
Intong, Maria Christabelle (IDM), "A Comparative Literature Review of HIV Risk, Prevention, Barriers to Care Among Youth and Young Adults in the United States and the Philippines"
Jia, Bryan (EOH), "Arsenic Exposure and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer: A Systematic Review"
Johnson, Arabella (BCHS), "Humanizing the Emergency Department: Designing a Curriculum to Address Barriers Faced by People Experiencing Homelessness"
Jones, Amelia (IDM), "Rising Rates and Missed Opportunities: Congenital Syphilis Prevention in the United States"
Jones, Holly (HUGEN), "Beyond PARG: Transcriptional changes and potential clearing mechanisms for PAR chains"
Kamath, Sanika (HUGEN), "sigNATURE: A reference-guided framework for reproducible T-cell biomarkers of immune checkpoint inhibitor response"
Karnam, Sindhu (EPIDEM), "Identification of Novel Genetic and Metabolic Biomarkers to Advance Early Detection and Prevention of Liver Cancer"
Karri, Urekha (HUGEN), "Improving transnational diagnostic assays fir haploinsufficiency of A20"
Kashiparekh, Anokhi (HUGEN), "Unveiling novel insights into the pathophysiology of TANGO2 deficiency disorder using integrated functional and multi-omics studies"
Kastroll, Jake (HUGEN), "Exploring the Role of GDF15 in Metabolic Disease"
Katz, Rain (EPIDEM), "Molecular Biomarkers of Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in the Tobago Health Study and Long Life Family Study"
Kee-Tui, Katya Parisa (BCHS), "Breaking Down Walls from the Inside and Out: A Proposal for an Inside-Out Public Health curriculum between the University of Pittsburgh and State Correctional Institute Mercer"
Kelly, Tyler (BIOST), "Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes for Sepsis Mortality Prediction"
Kenyon, Delaney (HPM), "Does Bias Education Work? Evaluating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Modules in an Emergency Medical Services Certification Curriculum"
Kerwin, Mariana (HUGEN), "Association between strokes and mental health in patients with a family history of strokes"
Kethri, Akuti (IDM), "Phenotypic Diversity and Natural History of HA20: Analysis of an International Cohort and Development of an International Registry"
Klousnitzer, Jessie (EOH), "Mitigating the Threat of Antibiotic Resistance with Novel Antimicrobial Peptides and Antibiotic Adjuvants"
Kudtarkar, Reema (EPIDEM), "Exploring the Interaction between School Connectedness and Adult Support on Adolescent Substance use in Pittsburgh Students"
Kuhn, Jenna (EOH), "Investigating Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance and their Impact on Bacterial Fitness and Virulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae"
Larkin, Christine (HPM), "The Relationship of Public Schools and Tobacco 21 Compliance in Pennsylvania"
Lastra Landa, Dafne (BCHS), "Encountering the state in Peruvian Amazonia: the politics of care and governance of Indigenous peoples in Loreto, Perú"
Le, Angela (EOH), "Myanmar Migrant Workers: How Language Barriers Impact Occupational Health & Perceived Risk"
Li, Jinhong (BIOST), "Statistical Learning Methods for Data Integration with Heterogeneous Data"
Li, Xin (BIOST), "Identification of Emerging Risk Factors and Temporal Patterns in Hospitalized COPD Patients: A Retrospective Analysis of NIS Database (2019-2023)"
Liu, Junlin (BIOST), "ROBUSTNESS AND FAIRNESS IN MEDICAL MACHINE LEARNING"
Liu, Shuwei (HUGEN), "Deciphering Cognitive Function through DNA Methylation: Insights from the Exercise Program in Cancer and Cognition Study"
Lombardi, Jacob (MULTI), "Efficacy of clindamycin versus vancomycin as a second-line agent for the prevention of surgical site infection in total hip and knee arthroplasties"
Luikart, Grace (BIOST), "Toward an Alternative to DXA: Biomarker-Based Prediction of Bone Mineral Density Using Machine Learning and Its Utility in Fracture Risk and Mortality Prediction"
Lyons, Emily (IDM), "Mechanisms of Antibody Mediated Rejection: A Murine Model"
Madan, Ishta (BIOST), "Acute and Longitudinal Overview of Traumatic Brain Injury Severity and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Children"
Magill, Claire (HUGEN), "Genetic Testing in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Evaluation: Provider Practices, Barriers, and Integration of Genetic Counseling"
Mahoney, Rina (HUGEN), "Clinical Utility of Panel-Based Pharmacogenetic Testing in a Precision Medicine Primary Care Setting"
Mandell, Alexis (EPIDEM), "The association between objective and self-reported measures of physical function among mid-life women with and without depressive symptoms: A cross-sectional analysis"
Mannion, Meghan (EPIDEM), "Evaluating Infectious Disease Surveillance: A Comparison of PA-NEDSS and PHC4 Hospitalization Data with Recommendations for Full CDC System Evaluation"
Marti, Michelle (IDM), "The impact of genetic ancestry on dengue virus infection of primary human skin cells"
Maselko, Molly (HUGEN), "Exploring Ethical Issues in Public Health Genetics Through Vignettes"
McGuire, Courtney (HUGEN), "Caregiver Perspectives on Treatment Outcomes in GEMIN5-Related Disorders: A Concept Mapping Study"
Meng, Jingjia (HUGEN), "Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis of Genetic Variants Associated With Lung Function and Survival in Interstitial Lung Disease"
Mierzejewski, Kathryn (HUGEN), "Impact of the Introduction of CPT Code 96041 on Billing for Genetic Counseling Services in Pennsylvania"
Mix, Christopher (EPIDEM), "Evaluation of Perinatal Hepatitis C Enhanced Surveillance System with Pediatric Provider Follow-Up; 2024 Pennsylvania Birth Cohort"
Molina, Brandon (HPM), "Addressing ADT Data Quality Gaps in Pennsylvania's Health Information Exchange"
Morales Gonzalez, Fabiola Alejandra (EPIDEM), "Women’s Experiences of Health Inequities and Institutional Trust in Puerto Rico: Original Insights on Colonial Governance and Disaster Response"
Mullen, Emily (EPIDEM), "Awareness and Reporting of Harmful Algal Bloom Related Illness (HABs): A Hybrid Literature Review and Preliminary Survey of Healthcare Providers in Pennsylvania"
Munir, Anushe (HUGEN), "Implications of genetic background in muscular dystrophy pathophysiology and molecular signatures"
Murphy, Grace (EPIDEM), "Moving Through Trauma: A Narrative Literature Review on The Role of Physical Activity in Supporting PTSD Recovery in Emerging Adults"
Murthy, Neharika (EPIDEM), "Pharmacoequity and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in American Samoa and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands: A Review of Cardiometabolic Burden, Access Disparities, and Structural Mechanisms"
Musto, Stephanie (HPM), "Improving the Quality of Pain Management Care through Targeting Patient Access and Standards to Care"
Nagy, Christopher (HUGEN), "Genetic Etiologies of Down syndrome Associated Alzheimer's Dementia and Implications for Future Clinical Trials"
Najimian, Justin (HUGEN), "Perceptions, considerations, and expectations of LGBTQ+ patients towards genetic counseling: a qualitative analysis"
Nigida, Samantha (HPM), "Building Community Resilience through Emergency Management Policy: a policy analysis of the state of California"
O'Connell, Sarah (HUGEN), "Adherence to Pancreatic Cancer Surveillance Recommendations for High-Risk Individuals"
Ogundele, Olufunmilayo (MULTI), "From Ethics to Epidemic: The Invisible Wounds of Moral Injury in U.S. Physicians and Its Public Health Impact"
Oladeinde, Ibukun (EPIDEM), "Review of Literature on the Drivers of Iron Deficiency and Anemia in Black Women of Reproductive Age"
Ooton, Claire (IDM), "Defining Replication Kinetics and Clinical Impacts of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Infection"
O'Reilly, Devin (HUGEN), "One in Five Samoans Have a CYP2D6 Variant of Uncertain Significance: Barriers to Samoan Precision Medicine"
Oshodi, Haliyat (HPM), "Equity, Representation, and State Variation in Maternal Mortality Review Committee Legislation"
Pagliano, Ornella (BCHS), "Promoting Microbiome-Supportive Diets in Cancer Patients: Barriers, Access, and Equity Considerations"
Palko, Raye (HUGEN), "Lyme disease as a public health concern: from the vector to the human genome"
Palmer, Lindsey (BCHS), "Countering the Feed: Youth-Led Messaging Against the Tobacco Industry’s Social Media Playbook"
Park, Pearl (BCHS), "Mental Health Care Access Barriers and Data Disaggregation Among Korean American College Students (Ages 18-25): A Scoping Review"
Piechowicz, Megan (HUGEN), "Patient and Guardian Perspectives on the Return of Genetic Testing Results Through the Electronic Health Portal"
Pierce, Alexa (HPM), "Mobile Health Units Providing Sexual and Reproductive in the Northeastern U.S.: Organizational Characteristics, Geographic Patterns, and Policy Contexts"
Pombar, Christopher (HUGEN), "Study of Multiple Male Infertility Gene Candidates in Human and Mice"
Ponx, Alexis (EPIDEM), "Adolescent Sexually Transmitted Infections in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: A geographic and demographic analysis within the context of U.S. Adolescent STI Trends"
Proper, Divya (HUGEN), "Parallel Parental Perspectives: A Qualitative Study of Parents of Children Diagnosed with Late-Onset Pompe Disease on Newborn Screening"
Qian, Baoli (EOH), "The Silent Saboteur: How Developmental Arsenic Exposure Rewires Skeletal Muscle Energy Metabolism"
Raabe, Nathan (EPIDEM), "Genomic Epidemiology of Antimicrobial Resistance-Harboring Plasmids in Healthcare Settings: Novel Approaches for Outbreak Detection and Surveillance"
Ramirez Tirado, Laura Alejandra (EPIDEM), "Effects of peripheral inflammation and neuroinflammation on clinical and neuroimaging outcomes across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum"
Ramkumar, Swetha Saro (HPM), "Organizational Culture Transformation in Healthcare Institutions Post-Pandemic"
Ramsey, Katherine (HUGEN), "Long-Read Sequencing Reveals Centromeric Signatures of Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres in Cancer Cell Lines and Tumor Samples"
Rangachar Srinivasa, Vatsala (EPIDEM), "Genomic Epidemiology for Understanding Respiratory Virus Transmission in Community and Healthcare Settings"
Reese, Alexandria (EPIDEM), "The intersection of sex, race, and neighborhood disadvantage on Alzheimer's disease pathology"
Reissman, Zachary (IDM), "Hospital Preparedness for Seasonal Influenza: A Literature Review"
Resch, Alianna (HPM), "Policy Analysis of Early Palliative Care Integration in Oncology: Addressing Barriers and Implementation Gap"
Resh, Kayla (IDM), "Early Infectious Complications Following In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Retrospective Cohort Study at UPMC Presbyterian"
Riedel Gonzalez, Tadeo (EPIDEM), "Analyzing the Early Warning Potential of Wastewater Surveillance for Influenza A Subtypes H1 and H3 in Pennsylvania"
Riley, Allison (EPIDEM), "The Influence of Climate Change Factors on Health Outcomes: A Surveillance Report of Extreme Temperature-Related Illness and Vector-Borne Diseases in Allegheny County, PA"
Ritchie, Hannah (BCHS), "The MMR Vaccine Does What? A Critical Literature Synthesis Exploring Parental Vaccine Hesitancy in a Post-Wakefield World"
Romano, Shannon (EPIDEM), "The Effect of Age at Menopause on Risk Factor-Cardiovascular Disease Associations in Women with Type 1 Diabetes: The Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) Study"
Rooney, Alicia (IDM), "Modernizing Candida auris Surveillance and Infection Prevention: Policy Analysis Integrating Automated Screening and Rapid Molecular Diagnostics"
Sabia, Ashley (EPIDEM), "The Role of Support Systems in Youth Substance Use"
Sabri, Amr (EPIDEM), "Review of Literature on the Association Between Cleaning of Shared Medical Equipment and Healthcare-Associated Infections"
Salvigsen, Taylor (HUGEN), "A Disease Concept Model for GRIN2A Gain-of-Function Variants"
Sanders, Nina (IDM), "Investigating single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from exome sequencing in individuals with varying rates of progression after HIV infection"
Schleicher, Alexandra (HUGEN), "Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Knowledge of Hereditary Cancer Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS)"
Schulte, Marlene (EPIDEM), "Strategies to Improve Completion of Multi-Dose Vaccine Series: A Literature Review"
Scioli, Jacob (IDM), "Genomic Surveillance of Gram-Negative Pathogens in Mechanically Ventilated Pediatric Patients"
Scott, Jordan (EPIDEM), "Rotavirus Vaccine Waning: An Exploratory Analysis, using the New Vaccine Surveillance Network (NVSN) data"
Scott, Sarah (EPIDEM), "Structural and Interpersonal Correlates of Teen Economic Abuse: Impacts of Parental Monitoring, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Social Support on Teen Economic Abuse Victimization"
Segura, Jaime (IDM), "Establishing a Human Skin Model to Investigate Powassan Virus"
Shahjahan (HUGEN), "Regulation of OCT1/POU2F1 and IRF2 by Mutant β-Catenin in Hepatocellular Carcinoma"
Sharma, Alyssa (EOH), "Entering Hot Waters: Typhoid Fever, Climate Change, and a One Health Perspective"
Sharma, Archisha (IDM), "Genomic and Serological Surveillance of Influenza D virus at the human-animal interface"
Shi, Ruyu (HUGEN), "Genetic determinants of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s Disease"
Silva, Andrew (HUGEN), "Genome-Wide Association Studies in Samoan Adults Identify Novel Adiponectin Loci"
Snyder, Gabrielle (EPIDEM), "Understanding Cardiovascular Aging in Women: A Life Course and Reproductive History Perspective"
Soni, Maahi (EOH), "From traditional plant to public health concern: Cardiovascular Toxicity of 7-hydroxymitragynine and regulatory gaps in kratom use in USA"
Spozarski, Emilee (HUGEN), "Addressing the Readability and Suitability of Health Education Materials to Improve Patient Education"
Spratt, Alison (EPIDEM), "From Surveillance to Prevention: Healthcare-Associated Infections in Allegheny County, 2016 - 2024"
Starliper, Chloe (HPM), "Optimizing Patient Experience and Care in Oncology: Access, Signage, and Length of Stay Initiative"
Sun, Jie (HUGEN), "Causal and Interpretable Machine Learning over Microbiome and CITE-seq Omics for Precision Immuno-Oncology"
Sutton, Lillian (IDM), "Land-Use Change and the Ecology of Zoonotic Spillover: Mechanisms, Amplification and Public Health Implications"
Sweeney, Kaitlin (BCHS), "Neighborhood Deprivation and Individual Predictors of Exercise Adherence in a Community-Based Exercise Class for Older Adults"
Syamala, Tulasi (EPIDEM), "Analyzing Street Medicine as a Model for Addressing the Needs of Unsheltered Populations"
Thawani, Nishi (HPM), "Bridging the Gap: Policy Strategies to Improve Rural Maternal Health Access and Address Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality"
Thompson, Emily (EPIDEM), "The Impact of Smoking Status on the Effectiveness of a Restrictive or Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Myocardial Infarction and Anemia: A Secondary Analysis of MINT Trial Data"
Tripathi, Arpita (BCHS), "Unintended Behavioral Consequences of Nicotine and Tobacco Policies in the United States: Evidence from E-Cigarette Flavor Bans"
Trump, Evan (BIOST), "Pediatric Asthma and Facilities Emitting Xylene in Allegheny County: An Exploratory Longitudinal Analysis"
Tuttle, Dylan (IDM), "Dynamics of the humoral immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine in people living with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1)"
Uvalle, Crystal (HPM), "Rising metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in the Latino Community: Recommendations for Allegheny County policymakers and stakeholders"
Wang, Yuchao (EPIDEM), "Bridging the Gap: A Literature Review of Loneliness Reduction as a Strategy to Improve Physical Recovery and Reduce Falls in Older Adults in the United States"
Wang, Ziyuan (EPIDEM), "Midlife as a critical window for cardiovascular disease prevention: evaluation of midlife cardiovascular health, medication use and cardiovascular disease risk prediction"
Watkins, Kaitlyn (HUGEN), "Structural Variation of LMNB1 in Autosomal Dominant Leukodystrophy: A Comprehensive Variant Compilation and PNS Specific Mouse ModelCharacterization"
Watson, Jordan (IDM), "Barriers to Effective Mosquito Control: A Field-Based Perspective on West Nile Virus Prevention"
Wei, Qi (EOH), "The Autophagic Nexus: Exploring the Mechanistic Interactions Between Type 2 Cytokine and Rhinovirus in Asthmatic Airway Epithelial Cells"
Weller, Savannah (EPIDEM), "Infection Prevention: Development and Implementation of a Data-Informed Hand Hygiene Intervention at a Healthcare Setting"
West, Maya (EPIDEM), "Review of Literature on the Role of Diagnostic Stewardship for Clostridioides difficile in a Clinical Setting"
Wheeler, Andrew (IDM), "Understanding host and virus factors that dictate vertical transmission of emerging bunyaviruses"
Whitsel, Amy (MULTI), "A Feasibility Grant Proposal to Add Music Therapy in a Centering Pregnancy Program to Decrease Perinatal Mental Health Complications"
Wilcox, Mackenzie (BIOST), "Relationship Between Genetic Risk Factors for Parkinson’s Disease and Olfactory Function in Black Individuals Without Diagnosed Neurologic Disorders"
Wilkins, Zachary (EPIDEM), "Aspergillus Burdens in Outdoor and Indoor Air at Hospitals Housing Patients at High Risk for Invasive Fungal Infections"
Witkowski, Benjamin (BIOST), "Baseline Gut Microbiome Characterization and Prognostic Associations in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure"
Witonsky, Kailyn (EPIDEM), "Moving Despite Pain: A Population Neuroscience Approach to Describe and Investigate the Drivers of Leisure Time Physical Activity Among Older Adults with Persistent Musculoskeletal Pain"
Woolley, Lauren (IDM), "Preventing Cesarean Section Surgical Site Infections in Patients with BMIs ≥30 kg/m2"
Xie, Xinrui (BIOST), "Conventional vs Gene-specific Normalization for Circadian Analysis"
Yang, Xue (BIOST), "Outcome-Adaptive Randomization and Optimization in Sequential Decision Making"
Yue, Molin (BIOST), "Deep Learning and Statistical Inference Methods for Multi-Omics Integration in Childhood Asthma"
Zak, Edward (EPIDEM), "The Association Between Hypertension and Emergency Room Encounters for Falls Compared to Inpatient Encounters in Older Adults with Parkinson's Disease"
Zang, Crystal (BIOST), "Supervised dimension reduction methods for large-scale EHR and omics data in biomedical studies"
Zaveri, Mahek Milankumar (EOH), "Reframing Plant Disease Communication as Public Health Risk Communication: A One Health Approach in the Context of Climate Change"
Zeng, Lang (BIOST), "Rank-based Deep Learning for Survival Analysis"
Zhang, Vivian (BIOST), "Evaluation of Harmonization Methods to Mitigate Platform and Batch Effects in Plasma p-Tau217"
Zhong, Fang (EOH), "Challenges and Opportunities in U.S. Plastic Waste Recycling and Management"
Zhu, Xinran (EOH), "Prospective Evaluation of Environmental Chemical Exposures Derived from Blood Chemical Exposomics and their impact on Lung Cancer Riskand Cancer-Enabling Cytokine"