Meet our graduate students. Find out what motivates some of our remarkable UW School of Public Health students.
Graduate Profiles

Rachel Shaffer
PhD, Environmental Toxicology
Andrew Chung
Graduate student, Executive Master of Health Administration
Maansi Modi
Graduate student, Master of Health Administration
Ceejay Boyce
PhD student, Pathobiology
Yun Hsuan Lu
PhD student, Pathobiology
Anna Plantinga
PhD student, Biostatistics
Dajzsa McDaniel
Graduate student, Master of Health Administration
Rui Zhuang
PhD student, Biostatistics
Jiacheng Wu
PhD student, Biostatistics
Claire Pendergrast
MPH student, Environmental and Occupational Health
Jenny Goodyear
MS student, Nutritional Sciences Program, Graduate Coordinated Program in Dietetics
Maayan Simckes
PhD candidate, Epidemiology
Francisco Rios Casas
MS student, Epidemiology
Marian Hyatt
MPH student, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Eric Garcia
Master of Health Administration
Avi Kenny
PhD student, Biostatistics
Natalie Gasca
PhD student, Biostatistics
Joseph Dempsey
PhD in Environmental Toxicology
Lorraine Twohey-Jacobs
MS in Epidemiology
Divya (Pahwa) Garg
MPH/Graduate Coordinated Program in Dietetics
Haylea Hannah
PhD in Epidemiology
Anna Mowell
MPH/RDN Training, Nutritional Sciences Program
Linda Umutoni Nzabamwita
MPH, Global Health
Diana Gabriela Aguilera
MS/Graduate Coordinated Program in Dietetics
Tiffany Bass
Executive MPH, Health Services
Dejene Abetew
MS, Health Informatics & Health Information Management
Erin McDonnell
MS and RDN Training
Norma Garfias Avila
MPH, Nutritional Sciences Program
Anna Levu Fogel
MPH and RDN Training
Stephanie Winterbauer
MPH/RDN Training, Nutritional Sciences Program
Jessa Engelken
MPH and RDN Training
Kazue Yoshida
MS/RDN Training, Nutritional Sciences Program
Cairo Archer
MS/RDN Training, Nutritional Sciences Program
Justy Antony Chiramal
MS student, Epidemiology
Tia “Tee” Benally
Graduate student, Community Oriented Public Health Practice Program (COPHP)
Marcy Lake, DO
MPH student, Online MPH Program
Anand Hemmady
PhD student, Biostatistics
Zihan Zheng
MS Capstone
Taylor Okonek
PhD student, Biostatistics
Amy Hunter Ervin
MPH and RDN Training
Evelyn Morris
MPH and RDN Training
Kaitlin Sandberg
MS in Nutritional Sciences
Olivia Ramoino
MPH and RDN Training
Jonathan Lara
MPH, Nutritional Sciences Program
Tina Mensa-Kwao
PhD student, Global Health Implementation Science & Metrics
Daniel Viveros
MPH student, Community-Oriented Public Health Program (COPHP)