Gael Compta (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development at Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. Gael holds a Master of Sciences (MSc) in Economics from the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), and a Bachelor of Sciences and a Master of Arts (MA) in Economics from the Université de Bordeaux (France).
Shalean Collins is an applied nutritionist and dietitian who uses mixed methods to evaluate the consequences of resource insecurity for vulnerable populations. Her research integrates training in clinical nutrition and public health and uses a biocultural approach to study the interactions between social, behavioral, physiological, and environmental determinants of health.
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Johanna Nice is a social scientist with expertise in designing monitoring and reporting systems for community-based initiatives and conducting international survey data collection and operations research for vulnerable populations. Through over a decade of work with the Highly Vulnerable Children Research Center, she has contributed to numerous quantitative and qualitative impact evaluations, shaping evidence-based programming to support children and families affected by HIV in South Africa.
Jonathan Niles (he/him) is a doctoral student in the department of International Health and Sustainable Development interested in impact evaluation and sustainable health system strengthening, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. His doctoral research focuses on the geographic disparities in human resources allocation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Nuzulul Kusuma Putri (she/her) is pursuing her Ph.D. in International Health and Sustainable Development. Her research focuses on primary healthcare management, mainly in public health program design and health financing. She is actively studying Indonesia National Health Insurance, one of the world's largest social insurance schemes, where she mostly focuses on the health disparities under health insurance and how it works at the primary care level. She is also interested in the issues of gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) dimensions of the health system.
Sydney is a public health professional with over 8 years of experience in the field, both domestically and abroad. Originally from Oklahoma, she has relocated across the country several times to pursue higher education—first to California to pursue her Bachelor of Science at Pepperdine University, and then to Louisiana to obtain her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at Tulane University SPHTM.
Briana is a 4th year PhD student in the department of International Health and Sustainable Development. Her primary research interests are in using critical approaches to study health equity in Afro-descendant communities in Latin America and the US. While at Tulane, Briana has assisted in teaching Social and Behavioral Perspectives of Health and guest lectured in other classes on health equity and the role of race and racism in health in Latin America.
Udochisom Anaba (he/him) is a PhD student in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development at Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. He received his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of York, United Kingdom, after completing his Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from Babcock University, Nigeria.
As of August 2024, Kelly is a third-year PhD student in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development at Tulane. She combines a scientific background with strong communication skills, developed through more than a decade of experience as a full-time writer with CNN and CNN International in Atlanta and Hong Kong. Kelly holds an MPH with a concentration in Health Promotion and Behavior, as well as undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Journalism.
