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Ph.D. Students Awarded EPH Conference Funds to Participate in Professional Conferences

Six Ph.D. students were awarded funds through the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health’s (EPH) Conference Fund to present their research at various professional conferences during the 2005-2006 academic year. The Doctoral Committee, responsible for the review of student applications to the EPH Conference Fund, is pleased to announce that the EPH Conference Fund is continuing in the 2006-2007 academic year.

The following doctoral students recently presented their research:

Brian Elbel, Ph.D. candidate ’07 in the Division of Health Policy and Administration (HPA), presented “Expectation Traps: Bounded Rationality and Consumer Behavior in Markets for Medical Care” at the Academy Health, Health Economics Interest Group conference in June 2006.

Julie Karp, presented her research, “Barriers to Minority Participation in Breast Cancer Prevention Trials,” at the AACR Cancer Pathology Workshop held in July 2005. Karp is a Ph.D. candidate ’07 in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology (CDE).

Shan Liao, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) Ph.D. candidate ’07, attended the Keystone Symposia conference in April 2006, and presented her research “Alterations in Lymphatic Vessels and High Endothelial Venules after Contact Sensitization Cause Transient Inhibition of T-Cell Priming”.

Kyeen Mesesan, M.D./Ph.D. candidate ’07 in EMD, presented “Predicting the Impact of a Partially Effective HIV Vaccine and Subsequent Risk Behavior Change on the Heterosexual HIV Epidemic in Developing Countries: a South African Example” at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in February 2006.

Michael Reddy, presented his research, “Non-correlation of the Reproductive Activity of Vectors of West Nile virus and Risk of Human Infection,” at the International Congress of the Society for Vector Ecology in October 2005. Reddy is a student in EMD and a Ph.D. candidate ’11.

Hongmei Wang, a student in HPA and Ph.D. candidate December ’06, presented “The Flip-side of Social Capital: the Distinctive Effects of Mistrust and Trust on Self-Reported Health in Rural China,” in June 2006 at the American Society of Health Economics conference.

Many Ph.D. students are asked to present their research at various professional conferences. Therefore, this list is not a comprehensive list of all the students who have presented their research at a conference.