Meet Our Students

The admissions ambassadors are current students representing our many programs at the Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Our ambassadors interact with prospective students via email and during school visits and events. We would be happy to connect you with one of our admissions ambassadors!

If you would like to connect or become an admissions ambassador, please email the Director of Admissions, LeShawn Simplis-Barnes, at lsimplisbarnes@tulane.edu.

2024-2025 Cohort of student ambassadors

Meet Master's Students

Click on a profile below to meet an MPH, MSPH, MS, MPHTM, or MHA student. 

MHA (Spring 2025)

BS, Public Health
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Hometown: Cape Coral, FL

Online MHA (Summer 2024)

BS, Neuroscience
University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA

Hometown: Mission Viejo, CA

MPH in Disaster Management (Spring 2025)

BS, Biomedical Sciences; BA, Global & International Affairs
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

Hometown: Woodford County, KY

MPH in Maternal and Child Health (Spring 2025)

BA, History; BS, Biology
Carolina University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

Hometown: Fayetteville, North Carolina

MPH in Epidemiology (Fall 2025)

Doctor of Medicine
Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India

Hometown: Chennai, TamilNadu, India

MPH in Epidemiology (Fall 2025)

Doctor of Medicine
Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India

Hometown: Chennai, TamilNadu, India

MHA (Spring 2025)

BS, Public Health
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Hometown: Madison, WI

MPH in Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences (Spring 2025)

BA, Anthropology 
The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH

Hometown: Lexington, KY

MPH in Maternal and Child Health, MPH in Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences (Spring 2025)

BS, Public Health 
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA

Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA

MHA (Spring 2025)

BS, Biological Sciences
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Hometown: Lafayette, LA

MPH in Epidemiology (Spring 2025)

BDS, Dental Surgery
Yashwantrao Chavan Dental College and Hospital
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India

Hometown: Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India

Online MHA (Fall 2024)

BS, Biology (pre-med)
Purdue University–West Lafayette
West Lafayette, IN

Hometown: San Diego, CA

MPH in Epidemiology (Spring 2024)

BSc. BDS, Dental Surgery
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 
Kumasi, Ghana

Hometown: Mampong, Ashanti Region, Ghana

MSPH in Environmental Health Sciences (Spring 2025)

BS, Chemical Engineering 
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Hometown: Gainesville, FL

MPH in Tropical Medicine (Spring 2025)

Doctor of Medicine
University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

Hometown: Ethiopia

MPH in Epidemiology (Spring 2024)

BDS, Dental Surgery
Sathyabama University, Chennai, TN, India

Hometown: Chennai, TamilNadu, India  

MHA (Spring 2025)

BS, Child and Family Studies
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Hometown: New Orleans, LA

Online MPH in Community Health Sciences (Spring 2024)

BS, Psychology 
Wilmington University, New Castle, DE 

Hometown: Easton, PA
 

MPH in Health Policy (Spring 2025)

Doctor of Medicine 
Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Hometown: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

MPH in Health Education and Communication (Spring 2025)

BA, Business Administration
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA

Hometown: New Orleans, LA

MPH in Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences (Spring 2025)

BA, Psychology
Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, AL

Hometown: Montgomery, AL

Online MPH in Community Health Sciences

BS, Biology
Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA

Hometown: New Orleans, LA

MSPH in Industrial Hygiene (Fall 2026)

BS, Biology
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Hometown: New Orleans, LA

MPH in International Health and Sustainable Development (Spring 2025)

Spanish; Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies 
University of Wisconsin-Madison,  Madison, WI

Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin

MPH in Community Health Sciences (Spring 2025)

BS, Biomedical Sciences
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Hometown: Tampa, FL

MHA (Spring 2025)

BA, Asian Studies
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Hometown: Greenwich, CT

Meet Doctoral Students

Click on a profile below to meet a doctoral student. 

PhD in Environmental Health Sciences (Spring 2025)

BS, Biochemistry (pre-med)
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

Hometown: Plainview, MN

PhD in Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences (Spring 2025)

MS, Health Education 
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 

BS, Geography
University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 

Hometown: Stockton, CA
 

Doctor of Public Health (Spring 2026)

MPH, Epidemiology  
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

BS, Health Science 
California State University – Fullerton, Fullerton, CA

Hometown: Huntington Beach, CA
 

PhD in Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences (Spring 2025)

MS, Economics
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

BS, International Studies, BS Economics, BS Mass Communication
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT