The Center for Health and Wellbeing proudly announces the 2022 Global Health and Health Policy (GHP) Senior Thesis Prize winners: Nathnael Mengistie (School of Public and International Affairs), Brooke Redwine (Molecular Biology), and Maddie Winter (History). This prestigious honor, which includes a $250 cash award for each recipient, recognizes the most outstanding theses written by students earning a GHP certificate.

• Mengistie’s thesis is entitled “Telehealth and Health Equity: Analyzing the Impact of State Telehealth Policies on the Use of Telehealth Services among Vulnerable Populations during the Covid-19 Pandemic.”
• Redwine’s thesis is entitled “History is in Our Blood: Systemic Sclerosis in the Oklahoma Choctaw.”
• Winter’s thesis is entitled “The Unprotected Public: The Pertussis Vaccine Controversy from 1982-1986.”

The following theses received honorable mentions:

• Samantha Bents (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) – “The Impact of Covid-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on Future Respiratory Syncytial Virus Transmission in South Africa.”
• Beata Corcoran (Anthropology) – “Life on Island Earth: A New Generation of Kānaka Maoli Perspectives.”
• Sean Edling (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) – “Disparities in Disease: An Epidemiological Analysis of Chile’s Public Health Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic.”
• Mansi Totwani (Molecular Biology) – “Breaking the Species Barrier: Investigating the Host Proteins Involved in Human and Murine Hepatitis B Infection.”