PhD Alumni

Graduation Date
2018

Dissertation
Mathematical Models of Vaccine-Preventable Disease in California

Advisor
Travis Porco

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Graduation Date
2018

Dissertation
Defining Diarrhea: Validating and improving caregiver-reported stool consistency as a measure of pediatric diarrhea in the Amhara region of Ethiopia

Advisor
Jeremy Keenan

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Graduation Date
2021

Dissertation
Evaluation of Breast Imaging Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Future Risk and Treatment Response

Advisor
Nola Hylton

Graduation Date
2019

Dissertation
Interventions to Mitigate the Impact of HIV in Key Populations in sub-Saharan Africa

Advisor
Judy Haan

Graduation Date
2024

Dissertation
Examining the Influence of Care Processes and Clinical Engagement on Disparities in Blood Pressure Control

Advisor
Maria Glymour

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Graduation Date
2023

Dissertation
Examining the Influence of Care Processes and Clinical Engagement on Disparities in Blood Pressure Control

Advisor
Rita Hamad

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Graduation Date
2016

Dissertation
HIV transmission among men who have sex with men: risks, tools, and consequences

Advisor
Travis Porco

Graduation Date
2023

Dissertation
Role of air pollution and socioeconomic position on cognition over six years in older adults in the United States

Advisor
Maria Glymour

Graduation Date
2018

Dissertation
Multilevel Factors in Cancer Screening

Advisor
Isabel Allen

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Graduation Date
2024

Dissertation
Predicting extubation readiness in pediatric intensive care unit patients

Advisor
Mark Pletcher

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Graduation Date
2022

Dissertation
Education and cognitive resilience: the role of schooling characteristics in shaping an ability to maintain high levels of cognitive functioning after the onset of disease

Advisor
Maria Glymour

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Graduation Date
2018

Dissertation
Breast density, body mass index, and breast cancer risk: Implications for clinical and public health settings

Advisor
Karla Kerlikowske

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Graduation Date
2021

Dissertation
Leveraging routine surveillance to estimate, map, and monitor malaria burden in Uganda

Advisor
Scarlett Gomez

Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Formative work to understand and improve colorectal cancer screening in Mexico and the United States

Advisor
Michael Potter

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Using electronic health records to provide timely evidence for routine clinical decisions for people living with Alzheimer's Disease or Alzheimer's Related Disorders

Advisor
Maria Glymour

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
The Impact of Mass Azithromycin Distribution and Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention on Child Health: Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects, Wealth Disparities, and Broader Health Implications

Advisor
Catie Oldenburg

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Graduation Date
2024

Dissertation
Structural discrimination and substance use among emerging adults in the United States

Advisor
Scarlett Gomez

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Graduation Date
2024

Dissertation
Racial disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: the role of school segregation and the schooling environment

Advisor
Jackie Torres

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Graduation Date
2016

Dissertation
Parental preventive behaviors and oral health in Latino children

Advisors
Robert Hiatt, Judith Barker

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Graduation Date
2023

Dissertation
Education and later-life blood pressure: evidence from compulsory schooling laws and college expansion in the United States

Advisor
Anusha Vable

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Graduation Date
2022

Dissertation
COVID-19 Outcomes in People with Rheumatic Disease: Results from a Global Physician-Reported Registry

Advisor
Jinoos Yazdany

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Graduation Date
2020

Dissertation
Cognitive Rehabilitation for Cocaine Use Disorder

Advisor
Kevin Delucchi

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Graduation Date
2022

Dissertation
Natural history and epidemiology of Ebola virus disease

Advisor
George Rutherford

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Bidirectional Data Harmonization, and Developing Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health Archetype, to Advance Chronic Disease Disparities Research

Advisor
William Brown

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Medication Abortion, Simplified: Addressing Research Challenges in Novel Models of Abortion Care

Advisor
Ushma Upadhyay

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Graduation Date
2022

Dissertation
Impact of Modifiable Diet and Lifestyle Factors on Prostate Cancer Progression and Mortality

Advisor
June Chan

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Graduation Date
2014

Dissertation
Harnessing Change: Human Health through the Lense of Evolution and Dynamical Systems Theory

Advisor
Ryan Hernandez

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Graduation Date
2017

Dissertation
Physical activity in motherhood: intervention, trajectory, and mixed methods analyses

Advisor
June Chan

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Blood Pressure Polygenic Scores, Target Organ Damage, and Antihypertensive Drug Effects: Insights from longitudinal Real-World Clinical Data

Advisor
Neil Risch

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Graduation Date
2013

Dissertation
Type 2 Diabetes, Risk of Dementia and Cognitive Decline, and the Competing Risk of Mortality Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults

Advisor
Mary Haan

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Graduation Date
2019

Dissertation
From Trials to Public Health Impact: Transportability of Causal Effects to Inform Implementationof HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis

Advisor
David Glidden

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Identify Social Determinants of Health in Pediatric and Opioid-Related Care: Analyses of Transformer-Based Models, Structured Data, and Unstructured Clinical Note

Advisor
William Brown

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Graduation Date
2023

Dissertation
The effect of intergenerational education on cognitive outcomes for and among Latinos in the US

Advisor
Jackie Torres

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Graduation Date
2018

Dissertation
Proposition 47: Effects of a California Drug Law Reform on Hospital Visits and Racial and Geographic Disparities in Criminal Justice Involvement

Advisor
Maria Glymour

Graduation Date
2014

Dissertation
The Effects of Air Pollution on Asthma in Latino and African American Children

Advisor
Esteban Burchard

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Graduation Date
2016

Dissertation
Evaluating the safety of malaria treatment in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient individuals: evidence and tools to support malaria elimination

Advisor
Roland Gosling

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Graduation Date
2016

Dissertation
Evaluating Quality Improvement Interventions: Strengthening Causal Inference with Observational Data

Advisor
Ralph Gonzales

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Graduation Date
2024

Dissertation
Intended and unintended effects of policies targeting alcohol and drug use in the context of pregnancy: exploring causal inference and multi-level modeling approaches

Advisor
Sarah Roberts

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Graduation Date
2018

Dissertation
Innovative Microbial Outcomes in Randomized Control Trials

Advisor
Thomas Lietman

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Graduation Date
2021

Dissertation
Importance, size and mobility of forest-going populations for malaria elimination in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Advisor
Adam Bennett

Graduation Date
2020

Dissertation
Estimating the Race/Ethnic-Specific Association Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes, and the Role of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Advisor
Alka Kanaya

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Patterns of Genetic Alterations, Transposable Elements, and Immune Cells in Supratentorial Glioma Patients: Clinical and Molecular Insights Towards Personalized Treatment

Advisor
Stephen Francis

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Graduation Date
2020

Dissertation
Evaluating the impact of malaria control interventions on birth outcomes

Advisor
Roly Gosling

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Assessment of associations and interventions in movement disorders: NSAID use and risk of Parkinsonian markers in genetic at-risk populations, and examining Deep Brain Stimulation surgery in isolated and acquired dystonia

Advisor
Carlie Tanner

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Graduation Date
2024

Dissertation
The Social Environment and Colorectal Cancer in the United States

Advisor
Robert Hiatt

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Graduation Date
2014

Dissertation
Substance Use and Alcohol among Key Populations at risk for HIV: Novel Approaches in Intervention Development and Evaluation.

Advisor
David Vlahov

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Graduation Date
2018

Dissertation
Integrating Genetics Into Population-Based Studies

Advisor
John Witte

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Graduation Date
2014

Dissertation
Participatory Action Research to Improve Physical Education in San Francisco Public Schools

Advisors
Eric Vittinghoff; Kristine Madsen

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Graduation Date
2017

Dissertation
Nativity, Immigration, and Cardiovascular Health in Older Mexican-origin Adults

Advisor
Mary Haan

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Graduation Date
2025

Dissertation
Methodological Innovations to Assess Detection Bias and Infectious Disease Risk Factors for Dementia in Real-World Data

Advisor
Maria Glymour

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Graduation Date
2023

Dissertation
Modeling the transmission of Ebola and GU Chlamydia in Sub-Saharan African countries under both epidemic and endemic settings

Advisor
Travis Porco

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