Samantha O'Connell is a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health. Her research interests include cardiovascular disease epidemiology, epidemiology of aging and brain health, and implementation science.

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). 

First year phd student in biostatistics, interested in censored data.

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.