2022 Thesis Projects and Advisors
Community Health Development Concentration
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Thesis Chair |
|---|---|---|
| Adenikinju, Deborah | An Integrated Approach to the Mental Health of International Graduate Students: Directions for Student Affairs Professionals | McGriff, Joanne |
| Anderson, Colleen | A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences and Personal Impacts of WASH actors during the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic | Caruso, Bethany |
| Bair, Sarah | From Ebola to COVID-19: The Impacts of and Community Responses to COVID-19 within the CHAMPS Network Communities in Sierra Leone | Blevins, John |
| Ballesteros, Valentina | Exploring Social and Economic Factors that Influence Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Among Venezuelan Migrant Women Living in Colombia | Andes, Karen |
| Berra, Liris | Examining the efficacy and feasibility of implementing an implementing an electrolyte hydration intervention among agricultural workers | Girard, Amy Webb |
| Bhandari, Manu Simriti | Understanding the Indicators of Women’s Empowerment and How They Are Measured in Microcredit Programs in South Asia and Southeast Asia in the 21st Century: A Systematic Review of Literature | McFarland, Deborah |
| Carty, Chantal | Examining the Impacts Of COVID-19 On Food and Nutrition Security Among Front Line Food Industry Workers in Kenya and India and the Potential Role of Workforce Nutrition in Mitigating These Challenges: A Thematic Analysis | Girard, Amy Webb |
| Chelli, Sarah | The Big Push Narrative: A Qualitative Analysis of a COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Narrative and its Influence of COVID-19 Vaccination Decision-Making | Lavery, James |
| Clevenger, Emma | Relationships Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Clinical Outcomes Among Adolescents Living with Perinatally Acquired HIV: A Mixed Methods Analysis | Winskell, Kate; Sabben, Gaelle |
| FarrHenderson, Maya | Social Capital Among an Incarcerated Sample of Femicide Perpetrators | Evans, Dabney |
| Godinez-Santana, Belen | Examining COVID-19 hesitancies related to fertility and pregnancy among Black and Latinx women | Lavery, James |
| Gonzalez, Tatiana | The Different Considerations for Food Ration Selection and Distribution Within the Keep Food Markets Working (KFMW) Program: A Mixed-Methods Approach | Girard, Amy Webb |
| Haji Said, Ahmed | Vaccines, Vaccination, and Vaccine-preventable Diseases in Humanitarian Settings, 2022 | McNabb, Scott |
| Huster, Sofia | Intimate Partner Violence Among LGBTQ+ Adults in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Evans, Dabney |
| Isidor, Nheissa | Examining Political Polarization on COVID-19 response in the United States: A Case Study | Smith-Easley, Julia |
| Iyer, Aishwarya | ‘We are completely captured’: The Influence of the Expanded Global Gag Rule on Malawi’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Landscape | Rochat, Roger |
| Kleine, Kjersti | Body Critique or Body Acceptance: Overweight Diagnosis and Weight Cycling Among Adults with a History of Overweight/Obesity in the United States 2017-2020 | Patel, Shivani |
| Large, Amy | A Comparative Analysis of National and State-Level Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Communications in the United States | Sabben, Gaelle |
| Leite, Katie | “The main goal is to create resilient communities”: Assessing the Role of Community Engagement Activities Across Global Nutrition-SBC Projects | Girard, Amy Webb |
| McCollum, William | The Big Push Narrative and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Black and Latinx Populations | Lavery, James |
| McGray, Taren | ‘You are not alone’: The Role of Social Relationships in Engagement in Care for Adolescents Living with Perinatally Acquired HIV (APHIV) in Western Kenya | Winskell, Taren |
| Mink, Thea | A process evaluation of participatory activities for Revitalizing Informal Settlements and their Environments in Makassar, Indonesia and Suva, Fiji | Sinharoy, Sheela |
| Oliver, Sloan | Educational Intervention Targeting Breast Cancer Knowledge and Awareness Among Women in Cusco, Peru: A Pre- Post-Test Intervention | Farhat, Ghada |
| Oo, Khin | Racism-Related Experiences, Expectations, and Mothers’ Concern about Children’s Exposure to Racism Associated with Poor Sleep Quality in African American Women | Lewis, Tene |
| Park, Jennifer | Gender Considerations in COVID-19 Emergency Food and Nutrition Systems Workforce Nutrition Programming in Kenya, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan: A Report Prepared for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)’s Keeping Food Markets Working (KFMW) Grant | Girard, Amy Webb |
| Patel, Nisha | The Development of a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Training Manual for Community Health Workers in Low Resource Arid Regions: A Special Studies Project | Castro, Kenneth |
| Pierre-Louis, Bensey | Adaptation of Community Mental Health Worker Curricula: A Literature Review of Existing Framework and a Proposed Framework for Haitian Americans | Blevins, John |
| Pisitpayat, Nichakul | COVID-19 Impact on Event-based Public Health Surveillance, Thailand, 2019 – 2021 | McNabb, Scott |
| Priyadarshini, Pretty | A Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Programs at Urban Health Initiative, Emory University that aids in reducing cancer mortality and morbidity in people of Atlanta | Girard, Amy Webb |
| Reyna, Kelly | An Examination of Social Determinants of Health among Women Living with HIV in Chiapas, Mexico | Hussen, Sophia |
| Shapiro, Lyla | Fighting Malnutrition and Poverty with Better Maize: A Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture (NSeA) Social Marketing Campaign to Increase Production and Consumption of Biofortified Maize in Guatemala | Girard, Amy Webb |
| Shulman, Gillian | Quality Improvement Processes: Efforts in Care to Augment Access to Quality, Equitable Diabetes Care | Stein, Aryeh |
| Telfort, Courtney | Facilitators and Barriers to Diabetes Self-Management Among Patients at an Urban Safety-Net Hospital | Winskell, Kate |
| Trimble, Shawn | A Systematic Review of Machine Learning Prediction and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment | Weber, Mary Beth |
| Wallace, Rachel | Associations of Water Quality and Animal Ownership with Caregiver Reported Childhood Diarrhea in Rwanda: A Baseline Analysis | Sinharoy, Sheela |
| Warren, Nikki | A Formative Assessment of Disability Inclusion in Public Health Pedagogy and Practice | Ordóñez, Claudia |
| Weldeselase, Hiwet | Assessing the Role and Integration of Community-Engaged Research (CEnR) in Addressing Health Care Access for Migrants in the United States – A Qualitative Systematic Review | Ordóñez, Claudia |
| Weldeselasie, Melat | Factors associated with household-level experiences of COVID-19-related hardships in Ethiopia: a quantitative analysis of hardships and the related socio-demographic factors | Cunningham, Solveig Argeseanu |
Infectious Disease Concentration
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Thesis Chair |
|---|---|---|
| Acquaah, Esi | Integrating Food Security Interventions in Cardiometabolic Prevention Programs: A Systematic Review of the Literature | Weber, Mary Beth |
| Ajani, Sonya | A Critical Analysis Studying the Magnitude of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Age, Sex, and Race in Georgia in 2021 | Patel, Shivani |
| Amanuel, Hanna | Alleviating the gaps in service for HIV-Exposed Infants | Castro, Kenneth |
| Awoniyi, Oluwafunbi | Artificial Intelligence for Public Health Surveillance | McNabb, Scott |
| Bishop, Darian | Lessons Learned from One Health Training, Republic of Armenia, 2021-2022 | McNabb, Scott |
| Boily, Marisa | COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitance in Black and Latinx Communities in Georgia: Garnering Effective Outreach and Research in Georgia for Impact Alliance (GEORGIA) Community Engagement Alliance Against (CEAL) COVID-19 | Bednarczyk, Robert |
| Busbee, Allie | Assessing HPV Vaccination Trends in the State of Georgia Utilizing the Georgia Registry of Immunization Transactions and Services (GRITS) Data | Bednarczyk, Robert |
| Buttolph, Jenna | Increasing Global Workforce Capacity: A New Outbreak Investigation Curriculum | McFarland, Deborah |
| Chaney, Danielle | Evaluation of the Indirect Effects of Rotavirus Vaccination Programs in World Health Organization Member States | Leon, Juan |
| Charles, Isabel | Effects of food and water insecurity on depression scores among women in Makassar during the COVID-19 pandemic | Sinharoy, Sheela |
| D’Eramo, Taylor | The Role of Collective Efficacy in a Community’s Ability to Implement Flood Measures in Urban Informal Settlements in Fiji | Sinharoy, Sheela |
| Doma, Rinchen | An Exploration of Women’s Sanitation-related Decision-making, Leadership, Collective Action, and Freedom of Movement in Urban Tiruchirappalli, India | Caruso, Bethany |
| Duncan, Kamea | Monitoring and Evaluation of Three Emory University Urban Health Initiative Programs: A Special Studies Project | Girard, Amy Webb |
| Gannon, Paige | Ebola Response and Mitigation in Central and Western Africa | Bednarczyk, Robert |
| Gonzalez-Montalvo, Myrna del Mar | Understanding the effect of COVID-19 on the management of non-communicable diseases in patients in a Federally Qualified Health Center in Puerto Rico | Castro, Kenneth G. |
| Harper, Rebecca | Surveying Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Jordan: Provider’s Perspective | Farhat, Ghada |
| Jitpeera, Charuttaporn | COVID-19 Case and Vaccination Rates, Thailand, 2021 | McNabb, Scott |
| Laramee, Nicholas | Exposure to animals, animal fees, and feces-contaminated environments for children under two years in households that own animals in Northwestern Ecuador: A qualitative research study | Caruso, Bethany |
| Lewis, Rachael | A Comparison of HPV Vaccination Coverage Estimates Among U.S. Adolescents and Adults using Birth Cohorts for Long-Term Evaluation | Bednarczyk, Robert |
| Maino Vieytes, Melanie | Global Systematic Review: Child Murder from the Perspective of Perpetrators | Evans, Dabney |
| Makonnen, Enneye | Stop Sepsis: Monitoring and Evaluation of WASH and IPC in Amhara, Ethiopia | Caruso, Bethany |
| Nedell, Emma | Reaching and re-engaging people living with HIV who are out of care: A mixed-methods exploration of strategies to enhance clinic communication and outreach | Kalokhe, Ameeta |
| Olatinwo, Saheedat | Interagency Collaboration in Public Health Emergencies | McNabb, Scott |
| Owusu Agyare, Bernard | Transforming Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect and Respond: A Systematic Review of Workforce Development | McNabb, Scott |
| Perel-Slater, Max | Understanding WASH Actors Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Tanzania and Kenya: A Qualitative Case Study | Caruso, Bethany |
| Putnam, Haley | Acute Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19 on Frontline Healthcare Workers during the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review | Fairley, Jessica |
| Saber, Lindsay | Surveillance for COVID-19 Using Wastewater and Advancing Nasal Self- Collection of Specimens (SWANSS) in an Atlanta Jail | Moe, Christine |
| Shah, Rohan | Comparative Analysis of Type 2 Diabetes Pathophysiology Across Multiple Ethnicities | Staimez, Lisa |
| Taylor, Megan | Identifying Gaps in the Zoonotic Disease Burden of Central America | Castro, Kenneth |
| Toth, Morgan | Exploring the Link between Sociocultural Variables and the Prevalence of Schistosomiasis in Minas Gerais, Brazil | Fairley, Jessica |
| Varraveto, Michelle | Community Perceptions of Mental Health Care among Young, Black Gay and Bisexual Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV in Atlanta, Georgia | Hussen, Sophia |
Public Health Nutrition Concentration
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Thesis Chair |
|---|---|---|
| Grap, Mary Ellen | A Critique of the Concept of Empowerment in Global Health | Lavery, James |
| Hendrix, Jeffrey Lee | A Program Evaluation of Cartersville City Schools’ Summer Meal Program | Girard, Amy Webb |
| Hogsett, Molly | Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Displaced Populations: A Systematic Review | Aguayo-Markes, Liliana |
| Huynh, Kevin | COVID-19 Pandemic Risks and Effects on Maternal Mental Health, United States, 2022 | McNabb, Scott |
| Muller, Gabriela | In-Depth Understanding of Exclusive Breastfeeding Barriers and Facilitators in Haryana, India | Young, Melissa |
| Stephney, Lydia | Systematic Review on Diabetes Prevention Focusing on Barriers and Facilitators to Lifestyle Changes in US South Asians | Weber, Mary Beth |
| Veitinger, Julia | Public Health clinics: The Frontline for Expanding Reach of Family History Screening for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer | McGriff, Joanne |
| Wang, Zhiyao | Unhealthy Weight Among Children-Mother Pairs in Cambodian Families: Prevalence and Associated Factors | Cunningham, Solveig Argeseanu |
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Population Studies Concentration
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Thesis Chair |
|---|---|---|
| Awide, Hezouwe Happy | What’s LOVES Got to Do with It? An Evaluation of a First-line Response Training for Mentors in PEPFAR Programs | Clark, Cari Jo |
| Chan, Kiera | Exploring Qualitative Experiences of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder within the Healthcare System | Clark, Cari Jo |
| Escobar, Karla | Experiences of Venezuelan Refugee Mothers During Pregnancy and Delivery in Trinidad & Tobago: A Qualitative Study | Martorell, Reynaldo |
| Fomo, Messaline | eHARTS: A qualitative assessment of the acceptability and feasibility of a mobile application for transition readiness assessment for adolescents living with HIV in South Africa | Zanoni, Brian C. |
| Henry, Joi | Understanding Perinatal Anxiety and Depression during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associations with Stress, Coping, and Resilience: A Scoping Review | Narasimhan, Subasri |
| Larsen, Ci’erra | Barriers to Abortion Access for Young Southerners: A Qualitative Analysis of Case Notes from ARC-Southeast | Rochat, Roger |
| Lindsey, Alyssa | “I can be pro-abortion and pro-birth”: Opportunities and Challenges for Full Spectrum Care Among Doulas in Georgia | Subasri, Narasimhan |
| Maramba, Tsungirirai | Challenges and Threats to the Sustainability of Sanitation Programs and the Role of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment in Sanitation Programs in Chivi, Zimbabwe | Leon, Juan |
| Ndimbalan, Haita | Systematic Review of HIV through the lens of Transactional Relationships for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa | Andes, Karen |
| Neill, Molly | Gaps & Best Practices of Organizations Serving Youth Survivors of Comercial Sexual Exploitation: A Systematic Review | Evans, Dabney |
| Nguyen, Michelle | Needs Assessment of the Clinical Management of Sexual Gender Based Violence across Medical Teams International Country Offices in Bangladesh, Tanzania, and Uganda | Kalokhe, Ameeta |
| Nicholas, Joy | Black Women’s Perspectives of Respectful Maternal Healthcare in Georgia: A Qualitative Exploration of Facilitators and Barriers | Rochat, Roger |
| O’Bannon, Amari | Costa Rica’s Therapeutic Abortion Law: A Qualitative Study of Public Health Implications | Evans, Dabney |
| Pier, Ellyn | “Starved” for Services: Analyzing Perinatal Depression Resources in Georgia | Clark, Cari Jo |
| Rayford, Sheritha | Developing Quiz Content for a Mobile Health App for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support | Winskell, Kate |
| Shah, Priya | Developing a Medication Abortion Advocacy Toolkit with Community and Policy Groups: A Special Studies Project | Narasimhan, Subasri |
| Sommer, Audrey | Child Sexual Abuse in Youth Serving Organizations: A Scoping Review | Narasimhan, Subasri |
| Spence, Tianni | Investigating the State of Maternal Mortality in Jamaica: A Scoping Review | Narasimhan, Subasri |
| Switzer, Margaret | Policy Implementation Versus Revocation: A Qualitative Exploration of Policy Change Communication between the U.S. Government and Global Health Implementing Partners in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe | Rochat, Roger |
| Virani, Nabeeha | Examining Perceptions of Social Support for Abortion Providers | Narasimhan, Subasri |
| Wynne, Allison | The Association Between Depression and E-Cigarette Use in US Adults, 2017-2020: An Analysis of National Survey Data | Patel, Shivani |