Infectious Diseases

Anshu Poudel earned her BS in Public Health from San Francisco State University. She is passionate about using epidemiological methods and machine learning to tackle health inequities, especially in HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and substance use. She is drawn to the way data can tell human stories and spark real change in communities. At UW, Anshu...

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Doctoral student in Nursing Science, global health scientist in training, and Registered Nurse passionate about healthy communities and people locally and globally, with special interest and experience in global public health, critical approaches, health disparities and equity, primary care, infectious diseases, and preventative care. Places I've been privileged to live, learn, work, &/or collaborate on...

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...

Olivia "Liv" McCollum is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology at the UW, where she received her MPH in epidemiology in 2024 and her B.S. in medical anthropology in 2022. As a 2023-2024 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Diversity in Health Science Research Supplement recipient, Olivia completed her master's research...

My name is Raymond W. Lam, and I am a Master of Public Health (MPH) Student in Epidemiology at the University of Washington. My main interest focuses on infectious disease research, specifically communicable disease surveillance. I became interested in public health and epidemiology because of my desire to understand and address the health disparities that...

Kendall Lawley is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology. She received an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Washington in 2023 and an MS in Experimental Psychology from Western Washington University in 2019. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health for LGBTQ+ communities with a …

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...

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.

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...