Public Health Research Day 2022
Welcome! The research presented today represents collaborative work from across the Brown School of Public Health. We encourage visitors to explore the posters and interact with poster authors.
Posters may be sorted by last name and number below. Please use the search tool to find authors, titles, or topics of interest (e.g. alcohol, child health, aging, pandemics, health disparities, diabetes, tobacco, etc.). Enjoy the conference!
| # | Last Name | First Name | Poster Title | Other Authors | Primary Research Area | Degree |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gulchin | Abigail Rachel | Understanding the Effects of Postnatal Depression on the Neurodevelopment of Infants with NAS | Lynne M. Dansereau MSPH, Marie Camerota PhD, Jonathan M. Davis MD, Barry M. Lester PhD | Alcohol/Addictions, Maternal & Child Health | Undergrad |
| 2 | Meyer | Aiden | Trends in the Utilization of Endovascular Thrombectomy in the Treatment of Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke: An Analysis of 2016-2018 National Inpatient Sample Data | Ryan McTaggart MD, Theresa I. Shireman PhD | Data Analytics/Big Data, Health Disparities | Undergrad |
| 3 | Ty | Allyson | Weight Management Engagement among Adolescents from LowIncome Backgrounds: Identification of External Barriers | Health Behavior, Health Disparities | Undergrad | |
| 4 | Parson | Amber | Narrative Review of Empirical Studies Examining Health Effects of COVID-19 on Individuals with Early Life Stress | COVID-19/Pandemics | Undergrad | |
| 5 | Ayers | Andrew | Living Filters for Removing Arsenic from Drinking Water | Yidan Bi GS | Environment/Climate | Undergrad |
| 6 | Desir | Arielle | Investigating the Impact of Institutional Racism on the Contemporary Fertility Rate of Black South African Women: A Scoping Review | Global Health, Health Disparities, Maternal & Child Health | Undergrad | |
| 7 | Zhu | Enya | Recreational Fulfillment Among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: Structured Observation Findings on Engagement from a Pragmatic Trial of a Personalized Music Intervention | Ellen McCreedy PhD, Anthony Sisti MA, Esme Zediker BSc, Miranda Olson MSc, James Rudolph MD, Renee Shield PhD, Rosa Baier MPH | Aging, Prevention/Health Promotion | Undergrad |
| 8 | Reed | Grace L. | Reactions to a Nicotine Reduction Policy Among Adolescents Who Smoke: A Qualitative Study | Rachel N. Cassidy PhD, Suzanne M. Colby PhD | Alcohol/Addictions | Undergrad |
| 9 | Powell | Jasmine | The Legacy of Redlining: Its Historical and Contemporary Impact on Birth Outcomes | Epidemiology, Health Disparities, Health Policy, Maternal & Child Health | Undergrad | |
| 10 | Griffith | Jennifer R. | A Comparison of Opioid Overdose Surveillance in Two Rhode Island Emergency Departments: National vs. State Surveillance Systems | Elizabeth A. Samuels MD, MPH; Ashley Gaipo BS; Francesca L. Beaudoin MS, MD; Brendan P. Jacka PhD | Alcohol/Addictions, Epidemiology, Drug Overdose | Undergrad |
| 11 | Lin | John C. | Price transparency for ophthalmic services in the United States | Sophia Y. Ghauri; Dustin D. French PhD; Ingrid U. Scott MPH, MD; Paul B. Greenberg MPH, MD | Health Policy | Undergrad |
| 12 | Katz | Juliana | Longitudinal maternal sleep position patterns, breathing during sleep, and fetal growth in high-risk pregnancies | Laura Sanapo MSHS, MD; Shira Dunsiger PhD; Melissa Guillen BA; Ashanti Avalos MPH; Annaly Aldana BS; Danielle Wilson PhD; Ghada Bourjeily MD | Maternal & Child Health | Undergrad |
| 13 | Kendall | Stern | “I can’t do it all”: Women’s career trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic | Alison Weber MPH, Jennifer Pellowski PhD | COVID-19/Pandemics, Women's Health | Undergrad |
| 14 | Suzuki | Kento | The Effects and Possible Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Social Anxiety Disorder: A Literature Review | Mindfulness | Undergrad | |
| 15 | Joerg | Lucie | DAPpers: A Model for the Arts in Public Health | Greg Youdan Jr. MA, MS; Anna Schwartz; Lori Sahakian; Rachel Balaban; Stacey Springs PhD | Aging, Art Therapy | Undergrad |
| 16 | Noh | Madeline | Evaluating Psychosocial Outcomes and Predictors of Retention Among Women Who Are Prescribed Opioids Post-CD/Hysterectomy | Kristen Matteson MPH, MD; Chris Raker PhD; M. Barton Laws MA, PhD; Patricia Markham Risica DrPH | Alcohol/Addictions, Health Behavior | Undergrad |
| 17 | Frey | Madelyn | Intimate Partner Violence & HIV Care Engagement among Pregnant & Postpartum Women Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Structured Literature Review | Global Health, Maternal & Child Health | Undergrad | |
| 18 | Yago | Malina Marlyn | Acculturation, Social Networks, and Discrimination: Do these Social Determinants of Health Impact the Cardiovascular Health of Asian Americans? | Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health | Undergrad | |
| 19 | Kopeka | Mamaswatsi Pearl | Experiences of work (re)entry with regard to HIV care engagement and retention among new mothers living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa | Global Health | Undergrad | |
| 20 | Afsharian | Parisa | Association between caregiver language and child weight status | Health Disparities, Maternal & Child Health | Undergrad | |
| 21 | Kirby | Rebecca | Further defining the origin of the Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 R561H mutation in Rwanda | David Giesbrecht PhD; Savannah Lewis ScB; Corine Karema MD, MSc Epidemiology; Jonathan Juliano MSPH, MD; Jeffrey Bailey MD, PhD; Jean-Baptiste Mazarati PhD | Global Health | Undergrad |
| 22 | Millard | Ryan | Quantifying the Impact of Out-of-pocket (OOP) Costs on Long-Term Adherence to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Men who have sex with men (MSM) | William Goedel PhD | Epidemiology | Undergrad |
| 23 | Plezia | Sammy | ‘If we don't eat our cultural foods, does that mean we're less [Latina]?’: A Qualitative Investigation on Eating Habits and Beauty Ideals Among Latin American Immigrant Women | Ashley Gomez MPH; Jennifer Nazareno PhD; KayLoni Olson PhD | Global Health, Health Behavior | Undergrad |
| 24 | Lee | Sangah | Effect of E-Cigarette Risk Perception on Smoking Behavior Among African American and Latinx Individuals who Smoke | Dale Dagar Maglalang MA, MSW, PhD; Jaqueline Contrera Avila PhD; Eleanor Leavens PhD; Nikki Nollen PhD; Kimberley Pulvers MPH, PhD; Jasjit S. Ahluwalia MS, MPH, MD | Alcohol/Addictions, Health Behavior, Health Disparities | Undergrad |
| 25 | Fisher | Sydney | Evaluation of Race/Ethnicity on HPV Vaccination Initiation and Completion Among Adolescents Aged 11-17 | Courtney McCracken PhD | Health Disparities | Undergrad |
| 26 | Hilton | Alec | Illness Narratives for Type 2 Diabetes: Evaluation of the Emotional Impact of Living with Diabetes in Xoxocotla, Mexico | Global Health | Master's | |
| 27 | Persaud | Alicia | Multi-Sector Stakeholder’s Perceptions of Determinants of Successful Implementation of a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention | Alicia Persaud BS; Ines Castro BA; Meg Simione PhD; Justin D. Smith PhD; Giselle O’Connor MPH; Mona Sharifi MPH, MD; Meghan Perkins MPH; Shioban Torres PhD; Elsie Taveras MPH, MD; Karen Kuhlthau PhD; Lauren Fiechtner MPH, MD | Maternal & Child Health, Prevention/Health Promotion, Implementation Science | Master's |
| 28 | Roberts | Briana | Alcohol Consumption and Melanoma Risk: A Prospective Analysis from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study | Briana Roberts BS; Yufei Li BS; Linda M. Liao PhD; Abrar A. Qureshi MPH, MD; Eunyoung Cho ScD | Alcohol/Addictions, Health Behavior,Prevention/Health Promotion (BD) | Master's |
| 29 | Brodie | Caleb S. | Identifying the association between risk of SARs-CoV-2 infection and mitigation strategy selection among Rhode Island K-12 schools | Caleb S. Brodie | COVID-19/Pandemics, Data Analytics/Big Data, Epidemiology | Master's |
| 30 | Zingas | Callista | The Association Between Maternal Depression and the Development of an Eating Disorder Among Girls in the Growing Up Today Study | Maternal & Child Health | Master's | |
| 31 | Jensen | Destry | Motherhood and identity: Analysing the lived experiences of postpartum women living with HIV in South Africa | Jennifer Pellowski PhD, Abigail Harrison PhD | Global Health, Maternal & Child Health | Master's |
| 32 | Asiedu | Emmanuella Asantewaa | Early-life Triclosan Exposure and Memory Function in 12-year-old Children | Joseph Braun PhD, Nan Li PhD, Kimberly Yolton PhD, Melinda MacDougall MS | Data Analytics/Big Data, Epidemiology | Master's |
| 33 | Alemu | Feven | Self-esteem and Mastery Among Food Insecure Adolescents in Jimma, Ethiopia Jimma Longitudinal Family Survey of Youth, (2009-2010) | Global Health, Food Insecurity | Master's | |
| 34 | Thomas | Hannah | La Patria Es Primero?: An examination of disparities in COVID-19 treatment and outcomes between migrants and non-migrants in Mexico | Annie Gjelsvik PhD; Omar Galarraga MA, PhD | COVID-19/Pandemics, Epidemiology, Global Health | Master's |
| 35 | Wahl | Jenna | LTCFocus: Long-Term Care – Facts on Care in the United States | Aging, Data Analytics/Big Data, Health Policy | Master's | |
| 36 | Cabrera | Josepha Dlc. | The Relationship between Perceived Stress, Depressive Symptoms, Emotional Eating and Motivation to Eat Healthier Overall Among Black Women: A Mediation Analysis | Patricia Markham Risica DrPH, Annie Gjelsvik PhD | Health Disparities, Psychological Factors and Emotional Eating | Master's |
| 37 | Rofe | Kara | The association between healthcare system interactions and PrEP usage among transgender and gender nonconforming adults in Massachusetts and Rhode Island | Jaclyn White Hughto MPH, PhD; Deborah Pearlman PhD | LGBT Health | Master's |
| 38 | Edwards | Krystal | Understanding Experiences of Diet, Exercise, and Gestational Weight Gain Among HIV Pregnant Women Living in South Africa - A Qualitative Analysis | Global Health, Maternal & Child Health | Master's | |
| 39 | Armes | Lyndsey P. | Adolescent Preventive Care Utilization and the Patient-Centered Medical Home | J. Austin Lee MPH, MD; Patrick M. Vivier MD, PhD | Health Policy, Prevention/Health Promotion | Master's |
| 40 | White | Margaret | The Association Between Family Military Status and Receipt of Needed Mental Health Care | Maternal & Child Health | Master's | |
| 41 | Igbinyemi | Nicholle | Framing Colorism within the Fundamental Social Cause of Disease Theory: Skin Tone, Socioeconomic Position, and Blood Pressure | Katie Biello MPH, PhD; Chanelle J. Howe MPH, PhD | Epidemiology, Health Disparities | Master's |
| 42 | Ahmad | Safi | The Effect of Loneliness, Income, and SGM Identity on Cigarette and Marijuana use during the Covid-19 Pandemic | Jasjit Aluhwalia MPH, MD; Jaqueline Avila PhD | COVID-19/Pandemics, Cigarette/Marijuana Use | Master's |
| 43 | Armidie | Tsion | Determinants of menstruation knowledge among adolescents in West Hararghe Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia | Alemayehu Worku PhD, David Lindstrom PhD, Alison Field ScD, Omar Galarraga PhD | Epidemiology | Master's |
| 44 | Ding | Yi | ARIMA models for predicting the number of new covid-19 cases of the 51 states in the US | COVID-19/Pandemics | Master's | |
| 45 | Zhang | Zhuoya | Cross-Sectional Associations between Eating Behaviors and Cardiometabolic Risk among Adolescents in the HOME Study | Epidemiology, Health Behavior | Master's | |
| 46 | Cho | Sharon | A Mixed Methods Examination of Multicultural Competence in Counseling | Thamara Davis MD, William C. Goedel PhD | Health Disparities | Master's |
| 47 | Quintana | Allison | Evaluating Clinical Utility of Multi-Category Outcome Risk Prediction Models | Christopher Schmid | Master's | |
| 48 | Chang | Fandi | Using Bayesian Multilevel Models to Analyze the Treatment Effects of Behavior Interventions from N-of-1 Trials | Data Analytics/Big Data, Health Behavior | Master's | |
| 49 | Walsh | Joanna | Simulations and Applications of EFA and MFA Methods Applied to ADNI Cognitive Data | Data Analytics/Big Data | Master's | |
| 50 | Zou | Lin Feng | United States COVID-19 Daily Cases Prediction in 2020 Using Bidirectional LSTM with Clustered Data | COVID-19/Pandemics, Data Analytics/Big Data | Master's | |
| 51 | Nelson | Morgan | Disruption of Circadian Rhythms Promotes Alcohol Use | Paul Soliman; Ryan Rhew; Carolina Haass-Koffler BS, PHARMD | Alcohol/Addictions | Master's |
| 52 | Ayala MD | Nina K. | Association between antenatal depression and cesarean delivery among first-time parturients | Lauren Schlichting PhD; Adam Lewkowitz MPHS, MD; Martha Kole-White MD; Annie Gjelsvik PhD; Siraj Amanullah MPH, MD | Maternal & Child Health | Master's |
| 53 | DeKara | Tobias | Reinforcement Learning for Best-Subset Variable Selection | Data Analytics/Big Data | Master's | |
| 54 | Su | Whitney | Modified Bootstrap for Causal Inference | Data Analytics/Big Data | Master's | |
| 55 | Liu | Xiao | Regression Analysis on Food Items and Food Groups with Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity | Health Behavior, Prevention/Health Promotion | Master's | |
| 56 | Wang | Xuenan | Predicting tracheostomy using ventilator support at 36 and 44 weeks in infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia | Maternal & Child Health, Prevention/Health Promotion | Master's | |
| 57 | Tao | Yanyu | Factors Associated with Weight Gain and Viral Suppression in Dolutegravir Combination Therapy Receivers | Data Analytics/Big Data, Health Behavior, Health Disparities | Master's | |
| 58 | Pan | Yezhi | Effect of Co-prescribing Benzodiazepines and Opioid Analgesics Among Older Cancer Patients | Data Analytics/Big Data | Master's | |
| 59 | Hansen ScM | Blake | Fast Variational Inference for Sparse Bayesian Multi-study Factor Analysis | Alejandra Pacheco PhD, Massimiliano Russo PhD, Roberta DeVito PhD | Data Analytics/Big Data | Doctoral |
| 60 | Kamat MS | Gauri | An Empirical Comparison of Probabilistic Record Linkage Techniques | Roee Gutman PhD | Data Analytics/Big Data | Doctoral |
| 61 | Scodes MS | Jennifer | Comparison of methods for analyzing proxy responses in patient-reported outcomes | Roee Gutman PhD | Data Analytics/Big Data | Doctoral |
| 62 | Montgomery MPH | Madeline C. | Preventive healthcare utilization and Papanicolaou testing among young adult cisgender women by sexual orientation in the United States | Madina Agénor ScD, MPH; Shira Dunsiger PhD | Health Behavior, Health Disparities, LGBTQ health, sexual/reproductive health, healthcare utilization | Doctoral |
| 63 | Lewis | Nickolas | Effectiveness of Vaccination in Preventing COVID-19 Reinfection | Laura C. Chambers MPH, PhD; Huong T. Chu MPH, MD; Taylor Fortnam; Roberta De Vito MS, PhD; Lisa M. Gargano MPH, PhD; Ellen Amore MS; Philip A. Chan MS, MD; James McDonald MPH, MD; Joseph W. Hogan ScD | COVID-19/Pandemics, Epidemiology, Health Policy | Doctoral |
| 64 | Valente MD, MPH | Pablo Kokay | Access to Healthcare and Preferences across PrEP Modalities among Young Men Who Have Sex in the U.S.: A Latent Class Analysis study | Jose A. Bauermeister MPH, PhD; Willey L. Lin MB; Daniel Teixeira da Silva MD; Lisa Hightow-Weidman MD; Ryan Drab MPH; Kenneth H. Mayer MD; Don Operario PhD; Jack Rusley MHS, MD; Katie B. Biello MPH, PhD | Health Behavior, Health Disparities, Prevention/Health Promotion | Doctoral |
| 65 | Gravelle MSc | Patrick | Zero-Inflated Hierarchical Generalized Dirichlet Multinomial Bayesian Regression Model for Analysis of TDP-43 on ALS-FTD Spectrum | Roee Gutman PhD | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) | Doctoral |
| 66 | Fortnam MA | Taylor M. | Evaluating the Impact of Rhode Island’s Targeted Vaccine Eligibility Strategy | Joseph W. Hogan ScD, Roberta DeVito PhD, Laura Chambers PhD, Alyssa Bilinski PhD | COVID-19/Pandemics | Doctoral |
| 67 | Gong AB | Jung Ho | Association of Patient Social Risks with Inclusion in Medicare Advantage Networks | Kenton J. Johnston PhD; David J. Meyers MPH, PhD | Data Analytics/Big Data, Health Disparities, Health Policy | Doctoral |
| 68 | Kempner BA | Marga | Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Sarah C. Niehaus BA; Julianne E. Skarha BA, BSc; Nina K. Ayala MD | COVID-19/Pandemics, Maternal & Child Health | Doctoral |
| 69 | Tang BS | Oliver Y. | Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Neurotrauma Epidemiology, Outcomes, and Management at a Rwandan Tertiary Hospital | Chantal Uwamahoro MD; Catalina González Marqués MPH, MD; Aly Beeman MPH; Enyonam Odoom MPH; Steven Nshuti MD; Spandana Jarmale BS; Adam R. Aluisio MSc, MD, DTMH | Global Health | Doctoral |
| 70 | Barkley MPH | Jonathan | Rhode Island Violent Death Reporting System (RIVDRS), 2004-2019 | Paul Soliman; Ryan Rhew; Carolina Haass-Koffler PHARMD | Epidemiology | RIDOH |
| 71 | Monteiro MPH | Karine | Rhode Island Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) | Tracy Jackson MS, PhD | Health Behavior, Prevention/Health Promotion | RIDOH |
| 72 | Monteiro MPH | Karine | Rhode Island Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) | Tracy Jackson MS, PhD | Health Behavior, Health Disparities, Prevention/Health Promotion | RIDOH |
| 73 | Seymour | Cheyenne | Rhode Island Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) | Karine Monteiro MPH, Dora Dumont MPH, Samara Viner-Brown MS | Maternal & Child Health | RIDOH |
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