Dr. Kristin Banek is an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist. Her current research examines antimalarial treatment effectiveness and adherence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. More broadly, she is interested in optimizing the implementation and effectiveness of malaria interventions and measuring their impact on disease prevalence and transmission. Dr. Banek earned her BA in Biology and German from St. Olaf College and her MPH in International Health and Development from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Kelli Stidham Hall, PhD, MS, is the Associate Dean of Research in the School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, the Thomas Keller Professor in Diversity in the Departments of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences and Epidemiology, and the Co-Director of the Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research at Tulane University. Trained as a social epidemiologist and originally an advanced practice nurse, Dr. Hall's research program addresses the social determinants of and solutions for maternal-child and reproductive health equity in the U.S. and globally.

Dr. De Anda-Duran is a cardiovascular risk and brain health epidemiologist with a diverse training background. She studied medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Baja, California, in Mexico and became a medical doctor in 2016. She obtained a master’s in Public Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2020. Before joining the Tulane faculty, Dr.