PhD

May 11, 2026

Hannah Han

Hannah Han is a PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology. She received an ScM in Infectious Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017. Her dissertation focuses on evaluating the safety of HIV PrEP use in pregnancy and postpartum and optimizing implementation of STI testing among pregnant women initiating PrEP…

January 25, 2026

Chidozie Declan Iwu

Chidozie is a microbial disease epidemiologist and a PhD Epidemiology student at the University of Washington. He holds an MSc in Microbiology and MPH in Epidemiology and Disease Control from South Africa. His research interest is focused on the epidemiology of emerging/re-emerging microbial diseases, respiratory disease surveillance, vaccines, antimicrobial resistance and global disease burden.

September 25, 2025

Andrew Hoover

Andrew Hoover is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. He completed his Master of Science in Environmental Health Sciences and Bachelor of Science in Public Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is interested in understanding and mitigating the health effects that socially…

September 19, 2025

Ananya Iyengar

Ananya Iyengar is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington-Seattle. She is interested in infectious disease epidemiology in global LMICs, reducing transmission of vaccine-preventable illnesses, improving healthcare access, and drugs and therapeutics development. She received a Master of Science in Public Health in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control from…

September 18, 2025

Nada Ali

Nada Ali is a PhD student in Epidemiology at the University of Washington, focusing on injury and violence research, particularly intimate partner violence. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Dental Medicine and Surgery from Cairo University and her MPH in Health Policy with a minor in Emergency Preparedness from Drexel University. Nada is deeply…

May 6, 2025

Wendy Dlamini

Wendy Wandile Dlamini is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Global Health. Originally from Eswatini, she holds a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research interest is in investigating the causal pathways at…

January 13, 2025

Andrea Molino

Andrea Molino is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology. She holds an ScM in General Epidemiology & Methodology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BS/BA in Biology and Human Health from Emory University. Her work and interests lie at the intersection of epidemiology and health services research,…

November 3, 2024

Augusto Ferraris

Augusto graduated from the School of Medicine at University of Buenos Aires in 2016 and specialized in Internal Medicine through 2022. Between 2022 and 2024, he completed his Master of Public Health – Epidemiology degree at University of Washington with the sponsorship of the Fulbright Foreign Students program, and he is currently continuing his studies…

October 26, 2024

Ling Guan

Ling Guan is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology at UW, where she also earned her MS in Epidemiology in 2023. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Peking University in China in 2015. Ling is a first-generation college student and is of Chinese Manchu minority descent. She was born…

October 15, 2024

Hanna Shephard

Hanna Shephard is a second-year PhD student in the Epidemiology department at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the impact of infectious diseases, especially sexually transmitted infections, on maternal and child health outcomes.