Students

The Center faculty work with PhD students throughout their time at SPH, providing the opportunity to obtain bench research experience, analysis, modeling and vaccine effectiveness research experience.

For more information about the programs offered in Epidemiology, please visit the Epidemiology Prospective Students Page.

To discuss, opportunities in our Center, please reach out to Center Manager, Lara Thomas (ljthomas@umich.edu).

Doctoral Students

Sarah Bassiouni
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Epidemiology (molecular, infectious disease, social), global health, social determinants of health and health disparities, geospatial analysis, demography
Email address: sbassiou@umich.edu 

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Joshua Foster-Tucker 
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: The intersection of infectious disease epidemiology, epigenetics, and geroscience
Email address: tuckjosh@umich.edu  

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Berhanu Gebremeskel
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiological Science, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Vaccines, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Global Health
Email address: bgebreme@umich.edu 

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Jessica Ibiebele
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
Email address: jibiebel@umich.edu

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Kalee Rumfelt
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
Email address: rumfeltk@umich.edu 

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Jade Yang
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Global Health, Vaccine Science and Policy, Virology
Email address: jadeyang@umich.edu  

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Troy Zhou
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Modeling, population health, chronic diseases, infectious disease epidemiology
Email address: zzrtroy@umich.edu