BBH Graduate Students

Immersed in scholarly interest in Epigenetics and Bioethics, Faizah co-founded an IRB, committed to academia, volunteerism, and research; currently investigating Genetic, Psychosocial, and Epigenetic factors affecting Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight.

Shannon Glenn is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Biobehavioral Health and a Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) predoctoral fellow.

Claudette, a summa cum laude graduate in Biology from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, is now a BBH graduate student focusing on health and wellness, particularly stress, mental and physical health, and inflammation.

Yiping has a background in public health and is interested in the social and spatial determinants of substance use behaviors. 

Lourdes is a 4th year PhD student in BBH. Her work focuses on the intersection of nervios, gender, occupational injury, and housing conditions among Latino farmworkers.

Lauren is interested in the role of the immune system, inflammation, and bioenergetics in mental health trajectories. 

Hridya is a dual-title PhD student in BBH & Clinical and Translational Sciences and uses epidemiologic and genetic data (from GHS, HCHS/SOL, and PAGE consortia) to study reproductive and cardiovascular conditions.

Sam’s research focuses on the role of mood states in addiction pathology and recovery.

Karina’s research focuses on how loneliness is associated with psychological and physiological mechanisms underlying health, with a particular focus on momentary and daily life assessment.

Katja's research focuses on factors that contribute to risky substance use among understudied adolescent and young adult populations through analysis of intensive longitudinal data.

Shannon is broadly interested in how health behaviors and psychological factors of occupational stress affect the overall health of first responders (e.g. firefighters, paramedics, law enforcement, and emergency nurses and physicians).

Qiaofeng is interested in understanding the impact of biopsychosocial factors on biological aging processes at physiological and molecular levels across the human lifespan.