Public Health Research Day 2026
Welcome! The research presented on Public Health Research Day represents collaborative work from across the Brown University 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, mental health, nutrition, Medicare, health disparities, hypertension, smoking, etc.).
Short URL for this page: go.brown.edu/phrd-posters
Enjoy the conference!
| Degree Program | Row | Poster | First Name | Last Name | Poster Title | Department | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate | A | 1 | Elena | Hurtado Solberg | Facilitators and Barriers to SNAP Participants’ Awareness and Utilization of a Statewide Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program in Rhode Island | Behavioral & Social Sciences | SNAP, RI, Nutrition, Health Disparities |
| Undergraduate | A | 2 | Leeah | Chang | Assessing the Relationship Between Ultra-Processed Food Intake and Young Children’s Dietary Patterns in SNAP-Participating Households | Behavioral & Social Sciences | SNAP, Nutrition, Pediatric health, Health Disparities |
| Undergraduate | A | 3 | Lucy | Yu | Mind Over Platter: The Role of Nutrition in Adolescent Mental Well-Being | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Nutrition, Adolescent health, Mental health |
| Undergraduate | A | 4 | Tenasica | Barnwell | Impact of Perinatal Mental Health and Neighborhood on the Association Between Aternal Early Life Stress and Parenting | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Mental health, Parenting |
| Undergraduate | A | 5 | Meray | Nemr | Neuropeptide-S Independently Modulates Impulsivity, Reward-seeking, Self-administration, and Attention. | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Behavioral health |
| Undergraduate | A | 6 | Jerry | Quan | The Impact of Nicotine Dependence on Smoking Cessation: Evaluating E-Cigarettes and Incentive-Based Interventions | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Smoking, Intervention |
| Undergraduate | A | 7 | Chína | Emekanwokeji | Menthol-Flavored E-Cigarettes and Smoking Cessation Among U.S. Adults: A Systematic Review | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Smoking, Systematic Review |
| Undergraduate | A | 8 | Pooja | Yerneni | A SEAIHCRD Compartmental Model for Characterizing Early COVID-19 Pandemic Transmission Dynamics: Insights into Unmitigated Epidemic Dynamics | Biostatistics | COVID-19, Infectious disease transmission |
| Undergraduate | A | 9 | Huyen | Nguyen | Assessing Billboard Distribution and Community Perceptions Across Rhode Island | Epidemiology | RI, Community health |
| Undergraduate | A | 10 | Vicki | Pu | Designing Roads for Equity: Investigating Active Transportation Infrastructure and Cardiovascular Disease in Rhode Island | Epidemiology | RI, Cardiovascular disease, Transportation, Health Disparities |
| Undergraduate | B | 1 | Safwan | Islam | Exploring Occupational Health Risks Among Gas Station Workers In The United States | Epidemiology | Occupational health risks, Health Disparities |
| Undergraduate | B | 2 | Kate | Choi | Testing Legal Claims: Hospital Mergers & Acquisitions and Service Line Availability | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Hospital systems, Health law |
| Undergraduate | B | 3 | Roya | Barakzai | Your Healthcare Inside & Out: A Community-Informed Evaluation of a Digitized Reentry Health Guide | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Community health, Evaluations |
| Undergraduate | B | 4 | Naomi | Jack | Provider-Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Implementation of the Community-Based Integrated Care Initiative in Fussa City, Tokyo, Japan | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Community health, Global health, Healthcare access |
| Undergraduate | B | 5 | Maddelynn | Brooks | Breastfeeding Initiation Rates in Rhode Island | Health Services, Policy & Practice | RI, Women's health |
| Biostats ScM | B | 6 | Mengyue | Liu | Early-Onset Breast Cancer Prediction: A Comparative Study of Transfer Learning Approaches | Biostatistics | Women's health |
| Biostats ScM | B | 7 | Ashley | Lockwood | Longitudinal Biomarkers for Detecting Lung Cancer using Time-Varying Cox Models | Biostatistics | Lung cancer |
| Biostats ScM | B | 8 | Yanhao | Ji | Using Emulators to Improve Efficiency of Calibration Algorithms: An Application to a Simulation Model for Opioid Use Disorder | Biostatistics | Opioids |
| Biostats ScM | B | 9 | Xuan | Jiang | Causal Interpretation of Treatment-Policy and Hypothetical Estimands in GLP-1 Obesity Trials: A Mediation and Simulation Illustration | Biostatistics | Obesity |
| Biostats ScM | B | 10 | Kaizhong | Mu | Bayesian RNN for Longitudinal Early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease Classification with Missingness and Flooring Effects | Biostatistics | Alzheimer's, Bayesian model |
| Biostats ScM | C | 1 | Xurui | Gao | Sex-Specific Prediction of Adverse Drug Reactions Using FAERS: An Interpretable Comparative Modeling Study | Biostatistics | Modeling |
| Biostats ScM | C | 2 | Zizhao | Xie | A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Spatial Pathway Enrichment Analysis in Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics | Biostatistics | Bayesian model |
| Biostats ScM | C | 3 | Weijing | Yin | Dissecting the Genetic Architecture of Human Metabolic Biomarkers using Sparse Matrix Factorization | Biostatistics | Biomarkers |
| Biostats ScM | C | 4 | Siqi | Li | Integrating Emulator Results of Complex Simulations Using Model Averaging | Biostatistics | Modeling |
| Biostats ScM | C | 5 | Yuqin | Wang | Variable Importance Modeling Using Sparse Local Explanations | Biostatistics | Modeling |
| Biostats ScM | C | 6 | Yiyun | Wan | Performance Comparison & Application of Bayesion Models in Correcting Measurement Errors | Biostatistics | Bayesian model |
| Biostats ScM | C | 7 | Mingzheng | Wang | Changing Composition of HIV Phylogenetic Clusters in Rhode Island: A Longitudinal Latent Class Analysis | Biostatistics | RI, HIV |
| Biostats ScM | C | 8 | Jingrui | Liu | Deriving Demographic-Specific Temperature Warning Thresholds for Marathon Safety Using Mixed-Effects Spline Models | Biostatistics | Modeling |
| Biostats ScM | C | 9 | Yuzhou | Peng | Estimating Causal Survival Effects Under Stochastic Dose Interventions | Biostatistics | Interventions |
| Biostats ScM | C | 10 | Valentin | Kirilenko | On the Synthesis of Information Across Studies | Biostatistics | Synthesis |
| Biostats ScM | D | 1 | Aijia | Zhang | A GPT-Assisted Shiny Dashboard for Longitudinal Clinical Trial Data Analysis | Biostatistics | Clinical trial |
| Biostats ScM | D | 2 | William | Welsh | Methodological Advancements in the Analysis of Case Crossover Studies of Environmental Health | Biostatistics | Environmental health |
| Biostats ScM | D | 3 | Depeng | Wang | Developing an R Package for Bayesian Modeling and Network Meta-Analysis of N-of-1 Trials | Biostatistics | Bayesian model |
| Biostats ScM | D | 4 | Shuyan | Luo | Exploring Consequences of Error in EHR-Based Asthma Sub-Phenotyping by Analytic Role of the Phenotype | Biostatistics | Asthma |
| Biostats ScM | D | 5 | Ian | Liu | A Deep Learning Framework for Protein Expression Prediction from Histology Images | Biostatistics | Histology images |
| Biostats ScM | D | 6 | Zinan | Zhao | Robust Bayesian Inference with Power Prior under Covariate Missingness | Biostatistics | Bayesian model |
| Biostats ScM | D | 7 | Yue | Li | Modern and Classical Survival Modeling for Bladder Cancer Recurrence: A Cox PH and DeepSurv Analysis Using EORTC Data | Biostatistics | Modeling, Cancer |
| Biostats ScM | D | 8 | Chang | Guo | Early Postnatal Growth and Childhood Obesity Prediction: A Life Course Analysis of the New England Family Study | Biostatistics | Obesity, Pediatric health |
| Biostats ScM | D | 9 | Mo | Zhou | Causal Effect Estimation with Multiple Network-Induced Dependencies: Applications to the uConnect Cohort | Biostatistics | Biostatistics |
| Biostats ScM | D | 10 | Shan | Su | Simulation-Based Inference for Intrinsic Accuracy in Multi-Cancer Early Detection Classifiers: A Monte Carlo Study with Confidence Interval Validation | Biostatistics | Cancer |
| MPH | E | 1 | Hannah | Bedrosian | Outcomes Reported in Studies of Mass Shootings in the United States: A Scoping Review | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Gun violence |
| MPH | E | 2 | Madelyn | Dewitt | Design and Implementation of an Emotional Support Space for Vulnerable Children in Cancun, Mexico at Huellas de Pan | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Global health, Implementation |
| MPH | E | 3 | Meta | Covington | “Let a Dead Thing Go”: The History of Herbal Abortion Providers in the United States and Their Future Following Heightened Reproductive Regulation | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Women's health, Reproductive health |
| MPH | E | 4 | Nick | Xu | The Interplay Between Proprioception and Exteroception: How People with Amputation Interpret Emotions from Touch in Paintings Across Different Social Affective Contexts ? | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Disability health |
| MPH | E | 5 | Ané | Scott | Examining the Impact of Breastfeeding Resources on Breastfeeding Initiation and Continuation in Rhode Island | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Women's health |
| MPH | E | 6 | Marymar | Vacio Lazalde | Evaluating the Association Between Parental Mental Health and Child Utilization of Mental Health Care in Latine Adolescents Ages 12-17: Findings from Multiple Datasets | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Adolescent health, Mental health |
| MPH | E | 7 | Punnava | Alam | Impact of a Climate Change Program on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Towards Mental Health in Climate Vulnerable Communities in Bangladesh | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Global health, Climate change, Mental health |
| MPH | E | 8 | Ella | Abourjaily | Outcome Measurement for a School-based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Intervention Amidst National Reading-Level Delays | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Pediatric health, Interventions |
| MPH | E | 9 | Mayor | Manlapid | Identifying Empowerment Processes and Outcomes Among Transgender Adults: A Novel Multilevel Model | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Transgender health |
| MPH | E | 10 | Devon | Newman | Exploration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Dosage on Daily Mood Scores of Teens Receiving a Text-message Based Therapy | Behavioral & Social Sciences | CBT, Adolescent health |
| MPH | F | 1 | Sharla | Kirkpatrick | Distress Intolerance Moderates Subjective Response to Cannabis | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Canabis |
| MPH | F | 2 | Yizhe | Sun | Relationship between Depression and Anxiety and Physical Activity Engagement Among Adolescent Girls: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the 2022–2023 National Survey of Children’s Health | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Adolescent health, Mental health |
| MPH | F | 3 | Allie | Haq | Understanding Social Support and Health Service Utilization Among Refugee Women with Experiences of Trauma-Based Violence | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Women's health, Refugee health |
| MPH | F | 4 | Danielle | Whisnant | Algorithmic Shadows: Auditing Social Media Content Unavailability for Human Rights Documentation in Conflict Zones | Biostatistics | Social media, Refugee health, Communications |
| MPH | F | 5 | Lin | Li | Microsimulation of Lung Cancer Outcomes Using the MILC Model: Calibration and Survival Analysis with NLST Data | Biostatistics | Modeling, Cancer |
| MPH | F | 6 | Aseel | Rafat | Dental Insurance and Utilization Among Rhode Island Adults: A BRFSS Analysis, 2018-2024 | Epidemiology | RI, Insurance |
| MPH | F | 7 | Miranda | Mergens | Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Cardiometabolic Risk Among US Adolescents: Evidence from the HOME Study | Epidemiology | Nutrition, Adolescent health, Cardiovascular health |
| MPH | F | 8 | Aditi | Akolkar | Independent and Joint Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Depression on Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Longitudinal Investigation | Epidemiology | Women's health, Mental health, Cardiovascular health |
| MPH | F | 9 | Jacqueline | Larson | Environmental Explorers School - An Environmental Health Literacy Program for Middle School Students. | Epidemiology | Environmental health, Adolescent health |
| MPH | F | 10 | Pallavi | Goel | Evaluating The Association Between Body Mass Index and Menstrual Cycle Irregularities | Epidemiology | Women's health |
| MPH | G | 1 | Rashi | Patel | Prenatal Dietary Inflammation is Associated with Appetitive Traits among Infants of Mothers with High Body Mass Index: Findings from the MIMM Observational Cohort Study | Epidemiology | Nutrition, Reproductive health |
| MPH | G | 2 | Mallory | Go | Prediction of Discordant Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Premature Infants | Epidemiology | Pediatric health |
| MPH | G | 3 | Lance | Nelson | Type of Sex Work and HIV and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Outcomes Among Cisgender Male Sex Workers in the United States | Epidemiology | HIV |
| MPH | G | 4 | Jake | Stevens | Hot and Dirty Air: The Joint Effects of Heat and Pollution on the Risk of Heart Failure Hospitalization in Older Adults | Epidemiology | Environmental health, Cardiovascular |
| MPH | G | 5 | Aysun | Akhundlu | Examining HbA1c Outcomes and Refill Behavior Among GLP-1 Users | Epidemiology | GLP1s |
| MPH | G | 6 | Sarai | Sales | Previous Preterm Birth and Postpartum Depression in Subsequent Pregnancies: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of CDC PRAMS Phase 8 Data | Epidemiology | Reproductive health, Mental health |
| MPH | G | 7 | Peyton | Luiz | An Agent-Based Model (ABM) of Influenza Transmission in a University Setting Under Different Student Vaccination Scenarios | Epidemiology | Infectious disease, Vaccination |
| MPH | G | 8 | Jaffry | Jaffry | Shock Index as Predictor of Severe Dehydration in Accute Diharreal Illness | Epidemiology | Infectious disease |
| MPH, Undergraduate | G | 9 | Pierre | Jolin | Hospital Prices, Cost-Shifting, and Resource Allocation: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Health economics |
| MPH | G | 10 | Jadyn | Howard | Implicit Bias Education for Future Health Leaders: Curriculum Strategies and Reflections | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Health education |
| MPH | H | 1 | Sabrina | Clumeck | Structural Barriers and Socioeconomic Determinants of HIV-Related Mortality in Children Under Five: Mixed-Methods Evidence from Sierra Leone | Health Services, Policy & Practice | HIV, Global health, Pediatric health, Health Disparities |
| MPH | H | 2 | Campbell | Loi | Key Challenges and Strategies for Humanitarian Health Response in Sudan | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Global health, Refugee health |
| MPH | H | 3 | Lauren | McCabe | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Hands-Only CPR and Choking First Aid Trainings Across Diverse Districts and Frontline Responders in Nepal | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Global health, Health education |
| MPH | H | 4 | Greta | List | School Climate as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Chronic Absenteeism and Third Grade Academic Proficiency in Rhode Island | Health Services, Policy & Practice | RI |
| MPH | H | 5 | Hailey | Dorsainvil | Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Primary Care Access Among Low Income Medicare Beneficiaries: A Comparison of Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Health Disparities, Medicare |
| MPH | H | 6 | Lauren | Thomas | Patient and Care Partner Experiences of Novel Anti-Amyloid Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease in Rhode Island | Health Services, Policy & Practice | RI, Alzheimer's |
| MPH | H | 7 | Sonal | Sharma | Bridging Gaps in Chronic Disease Management: A Study of Community Health Worker Integration in Safety-Net Clinics | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Chronic disease, Community health |
| MPH | H | 8 | Graham | Huntington | Humanitarian Trauma System Implementation in Haiti: Opportunities, Barriers, and Feasibility | Health Services, Policy & Practice | Global health, Mental health |
| Doctoral Programs | H | 9 | Chloe | Vincent | The Impact on Interpersonal Violence in the Peripartum Period on Postpartum Contraception Uptake: an Analysis of Rhode Island PRAMS Data, 2012-Present | Medical School | RI, Women's health, Reproductive health |
| Doctoral Programs | H | 10 | Leah | Shaw | Persistent HIV Transmission Misconceptions Among People Who Inject Drugs in Massachusetts, USA | Epidemiology | HIV |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 1 | Rey | Flores | “Really Just Recognizing that We Also Have Sex. It's Not Just Men Who are Having Sex”: A Qualitative Analysis of Cisgender Women’s Self-Reported Barriers to Accessing PrEP and other Preventative Sexual Healthcare | Behavioral & Social Sciences | HIV, Women's health |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 2 | Julci | Areza | Mapping the Life Course: Developing and Validating a Developmental Milestone Scale in Emerging Adulthood | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Mapping |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 3 | Mavis | Liang | Accessing Diagnostic Results in Reducing All-Cause Mortality: A Bayesian Principal Stratification Approach with Multi-Categorical Intermediate Variable | Biostatistics | Bayseian model |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 4 | Iris | Tong | Multiresolution Covariate Balancing with Wendland Kernels for Spatial Confounding | Biostatistics | Biostatistics |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 5 | Chunnan | Liu | An E-value–Informed Sensitivity Analysis Framework for Hybrid Controlled Trials | Biostatistics | Biostatistics |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 6 | Haiyue | Song | Causal Inference for Unobservable Multivariate Outcomes, with Applications to Brain Effective Connectivity | Biostatistics | Biostatistics |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 7 | Zhejia | Dong | Design and Analysis for Valid Causal Inference with Network-Dependent Data | Biostatistics | Biostatistics |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 8 | Lanyu | Zhang | Analyzing the Abundance of RNA Repeats from Extracellular Vesicles | Biostatistics | RNA |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 9 | Robert | Zielinski | Group-Level Estimation and Comparison of Subcortical Structure Shape via Additive Principal Manifold Estimation | Biostatistics | Biostatistics |
| Doctoral Programs | I | 10 | Amos | Okutse | A Knowledge-Infused Multitask Deep Learning Framework for Longitudinal Risk Prediction and Counterfactual Modeling | Biostatistics | Modeling |
| Doctoral Programs | J | 1 | Xin | Wei | Spatial Pattern Inference and Recognition In Spatial Transcriptomics Data | Biostatistics | Spatial statistics |
| Doctoral Programs | J | 2 | Chichun | Tan | Interpretable and Scalable Spatial Gene Set Activity Analysis with GESSO Uncovers Functional Tissue Architecture | Biostatistics | Spatial statistics |
| Doctoral Programs | J | 3 | Monica | Colon Vargas | Improving Efficiency of Area Under the Curve Estimation in Randomized Trials through Covariate Adjustment | Biostatistics | Biostatistics |
| Doctoral Programs | J | 4 | Victor | Hunt | The First Identified Case of Candida Auris in Rhode Island | Medical School | RI, AMRs |
| Doctoral Programs | J | 5 | Victor | Hunt | Machine Learning-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review of Clinical Evaluation Studies | Medical School | Evaluation, Health Disparities |
| Biostats ScM | J | 6 | Ross | ||||
| Biostats ScM | J | 7 | Liang |
Short URL for this page: go.brown.edu/phrd-posters
