Annie Nagy (IDM ’10) is the maternal and child health program administrator at the Allegheny County Health Department where she uses current public health science and evidence-based practices to manage the weC.A.R.E. and Healthy Families Allegheny programs. Nagy analyzes health information to assist in program implementation and establishes community relationships to promote and support the MCH Program’s strategic plan.
Jason Flatt (BCHS ’13) is an assistant professor in residence in social and behavioral sciences at the Institute for Health & Aging at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, where he leads studies exploring behavioral and social factors that increase risk for Alzheimer's disease and associated dementias.
Inmaculada Hernandez (HPM ’16) is assistant professor in the Pitt School of Pharmacy. She earned her PharmD degree and a master's in health economics in Spain and completed her PhD at Pitt Public Health in three years. She has earned multiple academic awards as she continues her career in the health services of pharmaceutical polices, culminating in being named one of Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 in Healthcare in 2019.
Wendy King (EPI ’04) is associate professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health. Her work is focused on the design, coordination, and analysis of multicenter cohort studies and randomized clinical trials. She is currently the principal investigator of the data coordinating center for three prospective cohort studies.
Caterina Rosano (EPI ’03) is a physician-scientist and neuroepidemiologist at the forefront internationally of investigating the mechanisms underlying physical and cognitive independence in older adults. Her publication record includes more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers that trace a logical and scientifically solid link between long-term exposure to cardiometabolic/lifestyle factors, integrity of selected brain networks, and maintenance...
Congratulations to HUGEN's Beth Roman on winning this year's award honoring faculty who have excelled in the teaching and mentoring of students. "Dr. Roman creates the best possible learning environment by making her classroom open to all questions, comments, and points of discussion. She actively seeks feedback from students in order to continually make improvements to the courses she teaches and is in charge of," said one nominator.
WGCU NEWS - With measles outbreaks on the rise and vaccination rates falling in some places, HPM and PHDL's Mark Roberts discusses our latest simluator, FRED Measles Florida shows how quickly this preventable disease could spread if vaccination rates were to drop by 15%, highlighting the importance of herd immunity.
Congratulations to Yue (Luna) Wei (BIOST '21) who won for Gene-based Association Analysis for Bivariate Time-to-event Data through Functional Regression with Copula Models during this year's Conference on Lifetime Data Science: Foundations and Frontiers meeting May 29-31 in Pittsburgh.
Zhe Sun (BIOST '19) presented BAMM-SC: A Bayesian Mixture Model for Clustering Droplet-Based Single Cell Transcriptomic Data from Population Studies at the spring meeting of the International Biometric Society. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Tao Sun (BIOST '19), who presented work on Coupula-Based Sieve Semiparametric Transformation Model for Bivariate Interval-Censored Data.
Yujia Li (BIOST ') won for work on Simultaneous Estimation of Number of Clusters and Feature Sparsity in Clustering High-Dimensional Data using Resampling Methods. Congratulations!
In conjunction with Dean's Day, Margaret Carr (EPI '22) was awarded the Center for Public Health Practice Award for Translation and Application of Research to Public Health Policy and Practice. In addition, Emily Fitzpatrick (EPI '19) and Abisola Olaniyan (BCHS '21) were awarded with the Catherine Cartier Ulrich Memorial Award for Service to the Underserved.
This year's Delta Omega prize was awarded to Teagen O'Malley (BCHS '19), and the Herbert Rosenkranz Prize was given to Brandy Hill (EOH '21).
Congratulations to first place winner Jessica Thompson (BCHS ‘20). Second place was awarded to Sarah Minion (EPI ‘19) and third to Abisola Olaniyan (BCHS ‘21).
Congratulations to Dean's Day winners in the master's category. Receiving first place is Beth Hoffman (BCHS ‘23). Second place was awarded to Kevin Stoner (HPM ‘19). Third place was given to K evin Sullivan (EPI ‘19).
Alexa Furek (MPH '21) received the prize for the master's category and Yuae Park (PhD '20) received the doctoral prize.
The Department of Biostatistics prizes went to Junyao Wang (PhD '20), first place, and Jerry Zhang (PhD '22), second place.
This year, EOH awarded the Keleti Award to Brandy Hill (PhD '21).
Meg Carr (MPH '22) won the master's level award and Jessica Graves (PhD '22) won the doctoral level award.
Krista Grobelny (MPH '22) won the master's level award and Mara Hollander (PhD '19) won the doctoral level award.