CLASS OF 2024
NOAH DYSON
Psychology Major, African & African-American studies and Communications Minors
PHOEBE GAMPONIA
Public Health Major, Biology and Wellness & Health Education Minors
NAZ SHOKRI
Public Health Major, Middle East Studies Minor
“Data Justice: MENA Women, Preterm Birth, and Discrimination”
A mixed methods study aiming to bridge the gap in knowledge between Middle Eastern individuals, a dangerously understudied population, with their experiences in healthcare and the impacts of discrimination.
LEAH SHORT
Public Health Major, Dance and Wellness & Health Education Minors
Class of 2023
VICTORIA COLBECK
Public Health Studies and Biology Major
“‘Ask Us, Hear Us, Believe Us’: An Examination of Health Care Quality, Racism and Outcomes for Childbirth Experiences of Black American Mothers During 2018 - 2023”
A mixed methods project investigating and exploring the quality of care, outcomes and experiences for Black birthing persons during their pregnancy/labor/delivery, in the United States from 2018-2022.
KAREN CRUZ-RUIZ
Public Health Studies Major, Biology and Spanish Minor
“Through the Lens of Latinx/Hispanic Women: Reproductive and Maternal Experiences in the Piedmont-Triad Area”
A qualitative research project seeking to understand the knowledge, perceptions, values, and lived-experiences Latinx/Hispanic women have regarding birth and reproductive and maternal health within the Piedmont-Triad Area of North Carolina.
KIARA HUNTER
Public Health Studies and Statistics Major, Leadership and Poverty & Social Justice Studies Minor
"Centering the Margins: Applying Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) in exploring Black Adolescent Fatherhood”
A mixed methods project seeking to provide a supporting foundation for a shift in public health research from documenting disparities towards actionable steps to fix them.
Class of 2022
DEENA ELREFAI
Public Health Studies and International Studies Double Major, Spanish Minor
"The Latinx Reproductive Experience: Barriers and Facilitators Towards Positive Engagement".
A qualitative study that uses principles of community-based participatory research to try and better understand the lived realities of Latinx people in Alamance County with regards to reproductive health.
NYLA RIVERS
Public Health Studies Major
Black Nativity and Birth Outcomes Project
Investigating preterm birth disparities by nativity within the Black population, under the mentorship of Dr. Faustin.
MIN STANWYCK
Public Health Studies Major, Statistics and Asian Studies Minor
Un-Masking The Origins of Maternal Morbidity Inequities (UMOMMI) Project
This project focuses on understanding severe maternal mortality and morbidity, racial disparities, and hospital-level factors.
QUEEN ASSATA STEPHENS
Public Health Studies Major, African & African American Studies and Theatre Arts Minors
Black Women and Out of Hospital Births
Understanding the impact of racism on Black women’s decisions to have out of hospital births.
MIA WILSON
Public Health Studies Major, Psychology Minor.
Un-Masking The Origins of Maternal Morbidity Inequities (UMOMMI)
This project focuses on understanding how maternal health care differs in terms of severe maternal morbidity and mortality in hospitals, with an emphasis on outcomes and inequities by race/ethnicity.
