Learn more about the research activities and experiential learning efforts of School of Public Health students at the Student Poster Session at Research Day. View our virtual poster gallery. 

1. Hamdi Adam: Periodontal Disease is Associated with Prediabetes and Elevated Glucose Among Non-Diabetic Adults: Results from the Oral Infections, Glucose Intolerance and Insulin Resistance Study (ORIGINS)
2. Zynab Ahmed: Premenopuasal women with PTSD display blunted vagal control of the heart and elevated central hemodynamics
3. Leandria Albury: Going Hungry: Impacts of Income on Food Insecurity at Private Institutions of Higher Education in Metropolitan Minnesota
4. Lorna Bittencourt: Factors Associated with Smoking Quit Attempts Among Rural Adults in the US
5. Jacob Cassens: Environmental drivers of immature Ixodes scapularis in Minnesota’s metro area
6. Laurel Cederberg: A cross-sectional investigation of pediatric sepsis patients seeking care at a hospital in Mbarara, Uganda
7. Phoebe Chastain: Utilization of Provider-to-Provider Telemedicine among Rural Obstetric Units before and during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
8. Erin Collins: Improving Quality of Diabetes Management Program for Communities of Color: Evidence from a Student-Run Free Clinic (SRFC) in Minnesota 
9. Simion De: Data Adaptive Covariate Balancing for Causal Effect Estimation for High Dimensional Data
10. Allison Domingues: Birth Certificate Reported Smoking and Childhood Cancer: A Registry-Based Analysis with Probabilistic Bias Analysis
11. Alexandra Edmundson: Designed for Success! Questionnaire Use in Foodborne Outbreak Investigations
12. Meghan Ford: Health Impact Assessment: Minnesota Gender Affirming Care Refuge Bill
13. Sam Greenwald: Non-Disclosure of SOGI Data to PCPs among LGBT Minnesotans: Characterizing Patients and their Stated Reasons
14. Alexis Grimes Trotter: Assessing BIPOC Students’ Experiences with Everyday Discrimination at Post-Secondary Institutions in Minnesota 
15. McKenna Haas: Breast Cancer Champions: A peer-to-peer education and mobile mammography program improving breast cancer screening rates for women of African heritage
16. Holly Hagstrom: Diagnostic Delays for Endometriosis among Rural Residents in the United States
17. Eleanore Hansen: Associations between sugar levels in tobacco filler and harmful constituents in the smoke of popular u.s. cigarettes
18. Arantxa Hernandez-Chaire: Lost in Translation: the association between limited English proficiency and healthcare access among Hispanic people in the U.S.
19. Estefanía Henríquez Luthje: Impact of Community Support Program on Exclusive Breastfeeding in Santo Domingo’s Health Area IV: A Model of Good Practices
20. Ingrid Jacobson: Discrepancies Exist Between Published and Hospital-Based Antifungal Prescription Guidelines for Pediatric Acute Leukemia Patients Infected with Candida spp. and Aspergillus spp.
21. Jackie Johnson: Non-typhoidal salmonellosis among Minnesotans who reported food animal contact, by demographic and exposure characteristics, 2012-2021
22. Jenna Kacheroski: A  Review of the Indicators of and Barriers to Minnesota Women’s Health: 2018-Present
23. Zhiyu Kang: DNA methylation signatures associated with COVID severity
24. Thuy Kim: Evaluation of the Minnesota Department of Health Foodborne Illness Online Consumer Complaint Form, 2018-2021
25. Bob Libal: Suicidal Ideation by Gender Identity and Rurality
26. Katherine Lymn: ‘A sense of community that people can count on’ or ‘Not my business’?: Opportunities to leverage rural norms to prevent violence
27. Marie-Claire Meadows: Cumulative disaster exposure and hypertension among mothers who survived Hurricane Katrina
28. Mykhaylo Malakhov: Identifying genes with tissue-specific patterns of genetic regulation
29. Oluwatosin Oluwole: Association between Body Mass Index and Breast cancer Incidence in non-Hispanic White and Black women in the United States
30. Lacy Pehlke: Serum platinum levels and cisplatin induced ototoxicity among pediatric germ cell tumor survivors
31. Austin Rau: Heat and cold waves increase risk of mortality among U.S. Veterans with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
32. Lauren Roach: “Qualitative research trainings inspired by a positive deviance approach”
33. Boonsub Sakboonyarat: Relationship between Pulse Pressure and Body Mass Index in Active-Duty Royal Thai Army Personnel in Thailand
34. Luis Silva: Spatial Cluster determination of Tuberculosis case rate in the Riverine Municipalities of the Brazilian Amazon
35. Deirdre Sperry:  Naloxone Administration in Minnesota Overdose Deaths
36. Christi Sullivan: Rewriting the Script: The Need for Effective Education to Address Racial Disparities in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Uptake in BIPOC Communities
37. Elena Tran, Gabbie Cesarone and Laura Farlow: The Landscape of Immunization Information Systems in the United States: An Analysis of the Infrastructure and Readiness of IISs during the COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign and the Effects on Equitable Vaccine Distribution
38. Madhura Vachon: Farm Animal Exposure Setting Impacts Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Risk Among Cases Infected with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli — Minnesota, 2010-2019
39. Miriam Valley: Interprofessional Student Garden as it Relates to the Social Ecological Model
40. Jiuzhou Wang: Multiple Augmented Reduced Rank Regression for Pan-Cancer Analysis
41.  Ammar Yasir: Presence and diversity of Leptospira in domestic animals, rodents, and mongooses in Puerto Rico communities
42. Madie Anderson-Sarno, Sophie Gonzalez, and Zach Schmit: Making a SPLASH! Examining Parent Feedback on a Positive Youth Development Program with Exploratory Qualitative Analysis