Meet our MPH students
MPH Students
Tosi Adeniyi-Miller
Class of 2026
Program: GH
MCH interests: Black Maternal Mortality, the environment and its effects on hormones and fertility, maternal health standardization of care within a community setting, community resilience and adoption of health, the impact of doula support, mindfulness concerning pregnancy outcomes and postpartum well-being.
Tomi Adesogan
Class of 2025
Program: GH
MCH interests: Postpartum opioid use prevention, maternal incarceration, HIV/AIDS and safe sex education, infant bonding, and reproductive healthcare policy.
Nausheen Ahmed
Class of 2026
Program: BSHES
MCH interests: Maternal mental health, gender-based violence, postpartum mental health and substance use, cultural competency in healthcare and community health education, reproductive rights and justice, safe abortion, and women's autonomy.
Janifa Akter
Class of 2026
Program: GH
MCH interests: Maternal and infant mortality, systemic factors that enhance the safety of pregnancy, childbirth, and neonatal care, and reduce pediatric mortality in developing countries and the United States.
Tsegab Arega
Class of 2025
Program: HPM
MCH interests: Accessible, culturally sensitive, and affordable reproductive health care. Making prenatal care more accessible and affordable for Black and brown women. Reproductive justice research & reproductive healthcare policy
Oummu Barrie
Class of 2025
Program: HPM
MCH interests: Reproductive justice, infant and maternal mortality, health disparities, health access, health education, family planning, global health
Julia Baumohl
Class of 2025
Program: EPI
MCH interests: Reproductive/sexual health education, HIV, STIs, reproductive justice, health disparities, adolescent health, maternal and infant mortality, and maternal mental health
Naziza Bhuiyan
Class of 2026
Program: GLEPI
MCH interests: Global health disparities, South Asia, period poverty, menstrual hygiene management; water, sanitation, and hygiene, maternal health access, reproductive health, maternal and infant mortality.
Sofia Bletnitsky
Class of 2025
Program: EPI
MCH interests: rural maternal care/ mother and infant care in maternity deserts, prevention of preterm birth and neonatal complications, and postpartum support.
Karina Collins
Class of 2026
Program: HPM
MCH interests: Women's health policy, affordable and quality health care access, maternal and infant mortality rates among Black and Brown communities, contraceptive and abortion access.
Virginia Cross
Class of 2026
Program: GH
MCH interests: Health disparities among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), LGBTQ+ health, global health policy.
Antara Deshmukh
Class of 2026
Program: EPI
MCH interests: Global MCH, infectious diseases, and tropical diseases influence MCH outcomes in developing countries and innovative and sustainable interventions for MCH populations in developing countries.
Bisrat Dessalegn
Class of 2026
Program: GH
MCH interests: Sexual and reproductive health, youth engagement, SDOH, advancing gender equity, and improving access to comprehensive SRHR services.
Sky Cupid Douglas
Class of 2026
Program: GLEPI
MCH interests: Reproductive health access for unhoused individuals, infectious disease prevention disparities across communities, black maternal mortality rates, gender-affirming care, lack of housing first treatment options for substance use disorder, and rural health disparities.
Joyelle Van Eron
Class of 2025
Program: GH
MCH interests: reproductive justice, midwifery and doulas, maternal and infant mortality disparity and prevention, health care policy, and LGBTQ+ health.
Maya Ferguson
Class of 2026
Program: BSHES
MCH interests: Missing/murdered minority children, sexual health education, sexual assault resistance, intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, health disparities of neurodivergent children, child trauma-informed integrated healthcare, black maternal mortality rates, and LGBTQ health disparities.
Zykevise Gamble
Class of 2025
Program: BSHES
MCH interests: Adolescent mental health, Family planning & child development, Prenatal & childhood nutrition, Black maternal mortality, health disparities
Shea Goodson
Class of 2026
Program: BSHES
MCH interests: Sexual and reproductive health education, increased vulnerability to pollutants and environmental factors in children, best practices in youth education and programming, and preventative healthcare for adolescents.
Heydy Herbert
Class of 2026
Program: GH
MCH interests: Immigrant maternal and child health, maternal incarceration, HIV/AIDS/STI/STD, sexual health education, reproductive justice, and BIPOC maternal-child-adolescent health.
Ashley Jones
Class of 2026
Program: BSHES
MCH interests: Black maternal and infant mortality, reproductive/sexual health education, reproductive justice, health disparities, healthcare access, patient care, maternal mental health, and workforce development within healthcare.
Ujuonu Kamanu
Class of 2025
Program: GH
MCH interests: Global health disparities, Black maternal and infant mortality rates, Sexual and reproductive health, Maternal mental health
Kate Kelsey
Class of 2025
Program: GH
MCH interests: Abortion Access, Sexual & Reproductive Health Disparities, Sexual Health Education, LGBTQ+ Health, Access to Culturally Competent Care
Karina Khanna
Class of 2026
Program: GH
MCH interests: Global health, abortion, LGBTQ+ health, and sanitary care.
Khadija Kuyateh
Class of 2026
Program: EPI
MCH interests: Black maternal mortality, nutrition, improving standards of care and delivery, accessible healthcare and immunization services for domestic and global marginalized communities, and developing culturally designed interventions for various threats affecting maternal and child health both domestically and globally.
Esther Oppong
Class of 2025
Program: GH
MCH interests: Maternal mortality, adolescent health, access to breastfeeding intervention, intergenerational poverty, infant malnutrition
Alexis Osei-Kofi
Class of 2026
Program: GH
MCH interests: Maternal and Child Infectious disease, refugee maternal and child health, disability rights and awareness, and MCH policy.
Kaitlyn Plummer
Class of 2025
Program: HPM
MCH interests: Developing anti-oppressive patient care policies in reproductive and maternal health care settings. Increasing access to quality reproductive and maternal health care. Reproductive Justice. Decreasing Black maternal mortality rates.
Miyah Reed
Class of 2025
Program: HPM
MCH interests: Maternal mortality rate of Black women, Racial health disparities, Health care access, Infant mortality, Postpartum health care, and Women's health policy
Kaitlin Schrote
Class of 2025
Program: BIOS
MCH interests: Immediate postpartum LARC, state-level differences in reproductive health policy for immigrants, and pharmacist provision of contraception
Lena Solomon
Class of 2025
Program: EPI
MCH interests: Maternal and infant mortality, Prenatal and postpartum healthcare disparities, Sexual & Reproductive Health Disparities, and maternal mental health.
Milly Thomas
Class of 2026
Program: GLEPI
MCH interests: Reproductive care in developing and conflict-prone regions, impacts of cultural variables, resource scarcity, and violence on MCH, policy and project sustainability with consideration to cultural relevance, cost efficiency, and reliable access to care/resources.
Thai Vang
Class of 2025
Program: GH
MCH interests: Global health disparities, maternal substance use, maternal mental health, nutrition, adverse childhood experiences, and children and youth with special health care needs
Vaishnavi Vedantam
Class of 2025
Program: HPM
MCH interests: maternal mental health, maternal and infant mortality, maternal healthcare disparities in rural areas, prenatal & postnatal nutrition, and postpartum care.
Eden Wakiweya
Class of 2025
Program: BSHES
MCH interests: Adverse childhood experiences, infant mental health, maternal mental health, socio-cultural factors, community resilience, immigrant and refugee women’s health
Nailah Wheeler
Class of 2026
Program: GH
MCH interests: Global health, health disparities, Black infant and maternal mortality, reproductive health, women’s health policy, adverse childhood experiences, and abortion access.
