Dear SPH Community,
I am thrilled to announce the poster winners from Public Health Research Day 2025! Each awardee has shown significant dedication to the School and the excellent work being done here. We look forward to celebrating these individuals and those who have worked alongside them to achieve the many successes of SPH this year.
Please join us in congratulating and celebrating the awardees at the annual Dean’s Award Ceremony on April 16th at 4 p.m at the Hope Club.
2025 Public Health Research Day Award Recipients
Top Graduate & Postgraduate Posters:
Jennifer Scodes - Ph.D. Biostatistics
- "Item-response theory to adjust proxy-responses when evaluating treatment effects in quality-of-life outcomes: an application to Parkinson’s disease"
Leah Shaw - Ph.D. Epidemiology
- "Community acceptability of the first state-authorized overdose prevention center in the United States"
Brooke Ury - MPH
- "Seasonality of Morbidity in Mexico and Climate Drivers"
Sirui Zhang - MPH
- "Hypertension Treatment, Blood Pressure, and Deprescribing Among U.S. Nursing Home Residents With and Without Dementia, 2018-2022"
Matthew Campos - MPH
- "Comparing Healthcare Utilization Among Hispanic Medicare Beneficiaries with Complex Chronic Conditions: A Comparison of Puerto Rico and Florida"
Makayla Hickmon - MPH
- "A qualitative analysis of the participants’ experiences with Mobile Solutions for Women's and Children's Health: Neonate (MWACh NEO)"
Lauren Ranney - Online MPH
- "Optimizing Active Placebo for MDMA randomized controlled trials"
Maia Lindner-Liaw - ScM Biostatistics
- "Effect of Meals on Wheels Delivery Model on Nursing Home and Inpatient Usage: A Power Prior Approach for Historically Augmented Pilot Trial Data"
Top Undergraduate Posters:
Soniya Chawla - Undergraduate
- "Over-The-Counter Naloxone Availability Within Rhode Island Retail Pharmacies"
Angelica Mroczek - Undergraduate
- "Leveraging the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Data Elements for Enhanced Health Risk Assessment: An Illustrative Case Study on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD)"
I hope to see you on Wednesday as we celebrate the accomplishments of our community members!
Sincerely,
Ashish K. Jha M.D., MPH
Dean, School of Public Health
Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice