Our PhD Students
More than 30 students are currently enrolled in the HSRP&A PhD program, including those in the market for employment.
Current Job Candidates
| Student | Area of Emphasis | Research Interests | Advisor(s) | |
| Bailey, Dionne | Multidisciplinary Social Sciences | Aging, Gentrification, Mixed Methods, and Health Equity | Tetyana Shippee, PhD, and Carrie Henning-Smith, PhD, MPH, MSW | |
| Shermeyer, Andrew | Health Policy | Geospatial Analysis, Healthcare Access, Health Policy, Health Insurance, and Public Options | Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, and Ezra Golberstein, PhD | |
| Elizabeth Watts | Health Economics | Health economics, Health policy, Cost barriers to care, Drug pricing, Medicaid, 340B, FQHCs, Chronic illness, Preventive care | Sayeh Nikpay, PhD & Jean Abraham, PhD | |
| CeRon Ford | Health Policy | Mental Health, Health and Social Policy, Healthcare Access, and Health Equity | Sarah Gollust, PhD and Carrie Henning-Smith, PhD, MPH, MSW | |
| Kene Orakwue | Sociology of Health and Illness | Health Services Research utilizing methodologies that disrupt white supremacy; Racial Formation, Oppressive Systems- Racism, Colorism, Texturism; Maternal and Child Health, Health Inequities/Equity, Doulas | J’Mag Karbeah, PhD, MPH & Sarah Gollust, PHD |
Current PhD Students
| Student | Area of Emphasis |
| Abshir, Ifrah (“Iffy”) | Health Policy |
| Akosionu, Odichinma | Health Economics |
| Beck, Abaki | Sociology and Organizations |
| Campbell, James (Jimmy) | Health Economics |
| Chiddarwar, Tanvi | Health Decision Sciences |
| Dahal, Roshani | Clinical Outcomes Research |
| Ford, CeRon | Health Policy |
| Frumholtz, Mateo | Sociology and Organizations |
| Houck, Olivia | Clinical Outcomes Research |
| Kissell, Paul | Sociology and Organizations |
| McGlave, Claire | Health Economics |
| Moeller, Kelly | Health Policy |
| Mudry Nelson, Quinlan | Sociology and Organizations |
| Murad, Yusra | Sociology and Organizations |
| Orakwue, Kene | Sociology and Organizations |
| Osegueda, Eduardo | Clinical Outcomes Research |
| Quijano Ruiz, Alonso | Health Economics |
| Quinones, Nicole | Health Policy |
| Sheffield, Emily | Health Policy |
| Steen Mills, Hadija | Sociology and Organizations |
| Watts, Libby | Health Economics |
| Weideman, Ben | Sociology and Organizations |
| Westfall, Noah | Sociology and Organizations |
| Yam, Hawking | Health Policy |
| Yang, Yunshu | Health Economics |
