COVID-19

Ithiri Lansakaranayake is Sri Lankan and grew up in England, Houston, and Washington State. She is a second-year MPH candidate in Epidemiology at the University of Washington, where she also earned her B.S. in Public Health–Global Health with a minor in Data Science. Before graduate school, Ithiri worked as a Workplace Health and Safety Specialist...

Rosa Weyula earned her MBChB from the University of Nairobi School of Medicine in Kenya. She is passionate about using epidemiological methods and data-driven research to address health challenges, particularly cardiometabolic diseases, multimorbidity, and the intersection of infectious and noncommunicable diseases. She currently works as a Research Assistant at the START Center at the University...

As a PhD student, I am passionate about exploring the intricate relationship between vaccination behaviors, equitable distribution of resources, and social determinants of health. I have taken coursework in categorical data analysis, research methods for social and contextual determinants of health, epidemic modeling for infectious diseases, and cost-effectiveness analyses to further enhance my unique blend...

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.