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.
Gloria Igihozo (she/her) is a PhD student at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, in the International Health and Sustainable Development Department. She is interested in health systems strengthening and health services research, with a focus on how community-based participatory research can be used to co-create holistic and sustainable global health programs in low-resource settings in Rwanda and across sub-Saharan Africa.
Sara Woltz’s research focuses on disparities, cardiovascular health, Black health, aging, and behavioral economics. Her current work explores the influence of allostatic load on cardiovascular disease risk. Woltz is a Social Behavioral and Population Science Ph.D. student, recipient of the NHLBI T-32 Drive Fellowship, and is advised by Dr. Caryn Bell. Prior to starting her Ph.D. at the Tulane School of Public Health, she worked for the University of Utah Neurology Department on clinical research and was the data manager of the State of Utah Parkinson’s’ disease registry.
Dongzhe Hong is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He has trained as a pharmacist (BS in Pharmaceutical sciences 2013, MS in Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Pharmacy 2015) through College of Pharmacy, Peking University Health Science Center. He has also trained health policy researcher (MSPH in Health Policy and Management 2017) through Emory University. He is the student president of Tulane Chapter for International Society for Pharmacoeconomics (ISPOR).
Andrew Andrada is a doctoral candidate in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development and works at the Center for Applied Malaria Research and Evaluation (CAMRE). His research interests focus on the implementation of malaria programs and the use of routine health information system data to improve malaria outcomes in endemic settings.
R. Eli Santiago is pursuing a PhD in Health Policy and Management at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine concurrent with an MD at Tulane School of Medicine. Their goal in pursuing a joint degree is to advance into a clinical-management position post-residency/fellowship and to expand healthcare services in medically underserved areas.
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