Poster Competition Doctoral Level

First Place
Lenora Goodman
Epidemiology
“Sociodemographic predictors of cardiovascular health among low-income and racially and ethnically diverse children”

Second Place
Ridwan Said
Environmental Health
“A health equity centered evaluation of a randomized controlled trial of very low nicotine content cigarettes in adults who smoke daily”

Lorna Bittencourt
Environmental Health
“Menthol and Filter Ventilation in Cigarettes: Prevalence estimates, risk perceptions and relationships with smoking behavior and exposures.”

Third Place
William Finical
Environmental Health
“A Phylogenetic Analysis of Highly Virulent STEC O26 in the United States”

Poster Competition Master’s Level

First Place
Carson Crane
Public Health Administration & Policy
“Housing Stability among LGBTQ+ Rural Residents”

Second Place
Josh Weiner
Health Services Research, Policy & Administration
“Characterizing pandemic-era changes to air ambulance transport distance”

Third Place
Rhea Alley 
Community Health Promotion
“Advocating for LGBTQ+ Mental Health: LGBTQ+ Representation in NIH-Funded Mental Health Research”

Poster Competition People’s Choice Awards

Esteban Lemus Wirtz
Biostatistics and Health Data Science 
“Stratified Outcome Adaptive Randomization (SOAR) for Clinical Trials”

3 Minute Thesis Competition

First Place
Mary Kosuth
Environmental Health
“Microplastics in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once”

Second Place
Ethan Cannon
Epidemiology and Community Health
“Moo-ving Beyond Traditional Beliefs About Dairy Fat and Heart Disease”

3 Minute Thesis People’s Choice

Mary Kosuth
Environmental Health
“Microplastics in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once”

Doctoral Level

First Place
Ammar Yasir
Environmental Health
“Presence and diversity of Leptospira in domestic animals, rodents, and mongooses in Puerto Rico communities”

Second Place
Madhura Vachon
Environmental Health
“Farm Animal Exposure Setting Impacts Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Risk Among Cases Infected with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli — Minnesota, 2010-2019”

Third Place
Allison Domingues
Epidemiology
“Birth Certificate Reported Smoking and Childhood Cancer: A Registry-Based Analysis with Probabilistic Bias Analysis”

Master’s Level

First Place
Phoebe Chastain
Public Health Administration & Policy
“Utilization of Provider-to-Provider Telemedicine among Rural Obstetric Units before and during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency”

Second Place
Jackie Johnson
Environmental Health Sciences
“Non-typhoidal salmonellosis among Minnesotans who reported food animal contact, by demographic and exposure characteristics, 2012-2021”

Third Place
Elena Tran, Gabbie Cesarone, Laura Farlow
Public Health Administration & Policy
“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”

People’s Choice Awards

First Place
Oluwatosin Oluwole
Epidemiology
“Association between Body Mass Index and Breast cancer Incidence in non-Hispanic White and Black women in the United States”

Doctoral Level

First Place
Keeley Morris
Epidemiology
“Potential Mechanisms for Pandemic Fatigue: The Time-Varying Relationship Between Stress and Average Contacts in the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Second Place
Mykhaylo M. Malakhov
Biostatistics
“Governance structure affects transboundary disease management under alternative objectives”

Third Place
Aleksandra Alcheva
Environmental Health Sciences
“Relationship between oral microbiome and tobacco-associated oral cell DNA damage in smokers with known differences in health risk”

Master’s Level

First Place
Claire Huber
Maternal and Child Health
“Exploring Associations Between Adolescent Intimate Partner Violence and Contraceptive Use”

Second Place
Joseph Akambase
Epidemiology
“The effect of anthelminthic treatment on malaria prevalence: A secondary data analysis of the Sussundenga malaria study.”

Third Place
Paige Richmond
Epidemiology
“Differences in treatment outcomes for opioid use disorder between pregnant and non-pregnant females in the United States (2019)”

People’s Choice Awards

First Place
Mykhaylo M. Malakhov
Biostatistics
“Governance structure affects transboundary disease management under alternative objectives”

Second Place
Maya Benedict
Public Health Administration & Policy
“Ukraine’s Health System: In Transition, Under Attack”

Annie Youngblood
Epidemiology
“Alcohol use among LGBTQ+ adults experiencing unmet mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross sectional data analysis from 2020”

Third Place
Caitlin Varquez
Public Health Administration & Policy
“Wildfires and Mental Health: The Impact of Indirect Exposure to a Climate-induced Disaster”

Doctoral Level

First Place
Thuy Kim
Environmental Health Sciences
“Public Health Benefit of Restaurant Grading & Posting at the Point of Service”

Second Place
Aleksandra Alcheva
Environmental Health Sciences
“Analysis of tobacco-specific constituents in novel tobacco-free nicotine pouches”

Third Place
Hamdi Abdi
Health Services Research, Policy & Administration
“Effects of media messaging strategies used to limit breast cancer screening overdiagnosis: A qualitative study”

Master’s Level

First Place
Siena Mitman
Veterinary Public Health (Dual degree)
“Risk factors for domestic animal carriage of antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli in semirural parishes outside of Quito, Ecuador”

Second Place
Narmada Venkateswaran
Environmental Health Sciences
“Assessing social contact patterns by industry during the MN Stay-At-Home order in the COVID-19 pandemic”

Third Place
Kelly Moeller
Public Health Administration & Policy
“Serious Mental Illness Assessment and Care in Nursing Homes: Stakeholder Perspectives”

People’s Choice Awards

Doctoral Level
Taiwo Aremu
Environmental Health Sciences
“The Risk of COVID-19 Infection in HIV Positive Patients: A Case Study of Fairview Minnesota Network”

Masters Level
Kelly Moeller
Public Health Administration & Policy
“Serious Mental Illness Assessment and Care in Nursing Homes: Stakeholder Perspectives”

Doctoral Level

First Place
Melanie Firestone
Environmental Health
“Can aggregated restaurant inspection data help us understand why individual foodborne illness outbreaks occur?”

Second Place
Aleksandra Alcheva
Environmental Health
“Relative mitochondrial DNA content in oral mucosa cells from African-American and White smokers”

Third Place
Scott Vial
Environmental Health
“Salmonella Serotype Dublin Testing Results of Boneless and Ground Beef Purchased for the National School Lunch Program, October 2013 – July 2017”

Master’s Level

First Place
Jessie Austin
Maternal & Child Health
“Race-Related Stressors and Resources for Resilience: Associations with Emotional Health, Behavioral Health, and Academic Investment among African American Adolescents”

Second Place
Devon Hunter-Schlichting
Epidemiology
“The prognostic impact pf human cytomegalovirus in mesothelioma patients”

Third Place
Mariana Tuttle
Public Health Administration & Policy
“How are Minnesota’s county jails providing care for pregnant women who misuse opioids?”

People Choice

Doctoral Level
Shannon Sullivan Cigan
Environmental Health
“Variation in levels of urinary cadmium and its relationship with occupation in smokers from the Multiethnic Cohort Study”

Master’s Level
Adam Aasen
Public Health Policy & Administration
“An Analysis of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Infectious Disease Outbreak Emergencies”

Yi Yang
Biostatistics
“A Bayesian Hierarchical Variable Selection Prior for Pathway-Based GWAS Using Summary Statistics”

Doctoral Level

First Place
Katie Tastad
Epidemiology
“Although baseline awareness is low, interest in congenital cytomegalovirus screening is high: results from a Minnesota State Fair study”

Second Place
Melanie Firestone
Environmental Health
“Beneficial impact of a letter-grade program for restaurant inspections on Salmonella infection rates in New York City”

Third Place
Manami Bhattacharya
Health Services Research, Policy & Administration
“Does where you are born determine whether you have HPV? An examination of nativity status and HPV infection among adults in the U.S.”

Master’s Level

First Place
Whitney Koester
Public Health Administration & Policy
“Spatial Equity of Mass Dispensing Sites in the Twin Cities Metro”

Second Place
Miko Gamban
Public Health Administration & Policy
“Examining Differences in Suicidality among Adolescents in Minnesota using the Minnesota Student Survey”

Third Place
Aleksandra Alcheva
Environmental Health
“Toxicants and carcinogens in natural American Spirit cigarettes”

People Choice

Doctoral Level
Manami Bhattacharya
Health Services Research, Policy & Administration
“Does where you are born determine whether you have HPV? An examination of nativity status and HPV infection among adults in the U.S.”

Master’s Level
Patrick Malone
Public Health Informatics
“Systems Analysis for Population Health Management: A Case Study of North Collaborative Care”

Doctoral Level

First Place
Jin Jin
Biostatistics
“Detection of Prostate Cancer with mpMRI Bayesian Models Utilizing the Structure of the Prostate”

Second Place
Jincheng Zhou
Biostatistics
“Random Effects Models for Meta-Analysis of Causal Effects in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance”

Third Place
Patrick Schnell
Biostatistics
“Semiparametric Benefiting Subgroup Identification”

Master’s Level

First Place
Jennifer Grimm
Epidemiology
“Development of a Non-invasive Method for the Measurement of Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies”

Second Place
Oluwaseun Fashanu
Epidemiology
“Galectin-3 and Venous Thromboembolism Incidence: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study”

Third Place
Makshita Luthra
Public Health Administration
“Variation in Opioid Utilization Practices in Orthopaedic Patients in Hospitals of United States”

People Choice

Doctoral Level
Manami Bhattacharya
Health Services Research, Policy & Administration
“Measuring How Well Physicians Know Their Panels and are Prepared to Work with Diverse Populations”

Master’s Level
Gabriela Lazalde
Public Health Administration
“Dentists as HPV Vaccinators: What Do Parents Think?”