Graduate Students

Taylor Harrington

PhD Candidate, Methodologist

Substance Use, Violence Prevention, Mental Health, Computational & Geospatial Methods

Hexin Yang

PhD Candidate, Methodologist

School Research, Child and Adolescent Development, Advanced Statistical Analysis

Demographic disparities in autism identification, Impacts of state-level variability in interpretation and implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Inequities experienced by marginalized populations in access to, and quality of, clinical and educational experiences

Esenia Cassidy

PhD Student, Graduate Research Assistant

Psychedelic use and mental health, Aging and end of life care, Attachment and trauma, Gender identity and LGBTQIA+ experiences

Olorede Abdulgafar A.

Graduate Research Assistant

Social Welfare, Child Maltreatment and Abuse, Substance Use and Drug Abuse

Randi Ellis

Graduate Research Assistant

Health Disparities, Health Equity, Violence Prevention, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Community-Based Public Health

Yunzi Yu

PhD Student

Child and family well-being, Child mental health, Parenting, Family dynamics, Family resilience, Family flourishing, Marginalized Families, Immigrant families, Social and ethnic minority families, Autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities, Intervention research; Program evaluation

Bruna Atalaya

PhD student

housing studies, climate-related disasters, racial and spatial inequalities, geospatial methods

Mingjun Gao

PhD Student, Graduate Research Assistant

Spatial Data Analysis, Child and Family Well-being, Public Health Policy

Kaleb Masterson

Graduate Research Assistant

Marginalized Populations, Structural Inequity, Healthcare Delay and Avoidance, Policy and Policymaking Analysis, Child and Family Well-being, Spatial Data Analysis

Zahra Alhajjaj

PhD Candidate, Graduate Research Assistant

Child and Women Health, Non-Pharmacological Pain Management (Reflexology), Cancer Related Research

Ray Mathew-Santhosham

Graduate Research Assistant

LGBTQ+ Issues, Trauma and Resilience, Art-Based Practice and Interventions, Community Arts, Collage Art