Postdoc Hanna Ehrlich reflects on her academic journey and research focused on pathogen landscapes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases.
Bhuyan discusses his work on chronic disease management and health information systems as well as his overarching goal of improving population health.
Tanisha Spratt, a medical sociologist and visiting research scholar at CHW, explores how racism, class, and other social determinants of health impact health outcomes.
In this Spotlight, Ori Heffetz, an economist and visiting research scholar at CHW, discusses the multi-faceted dimensions of human welfare.
CHW affiliate Mustafa Basij-Rasikh discusses his research interests and passion for improving health outcomes in fragile, conflict-affected settings across the world.
In a recent interview, Colleen Carey discussed her work on the United States health care industry. Her research examines government-managed health insurance markets, physician behavior, and other dynamics that influence domestic health policy, equity, and outcomes.
Emma Zang, a demographer and visiting research scholar at Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), has long been intrigued by the relationships between health, family and inequality. In this Spotlight, Zang explains how her upbringing, cultural influences – and even a few imaginary siblings – affected the course of her education and career.
One might say that Adriana Corredor-Waldron, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), has a knack for numbers. She holds a Ph.D. in economics and launched her career as an analyst for the Central Bank of Colombia, assessing futures, currency options and foreign exchange risk to evaluate the financial stability of…
Heidi Morefield, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW), has a unique perspective on public health. After growing up in Canada with the security of universal health care, Heidi experienced a far more fragmented health insurance system in the United States, where coverage has not kept pace with escalating…
In this spotlight, we talk to Raphael Frankfurter about how to incorporate a critical anthropological perspective into global health practice and his experience working in Sierra Leone before, during, and after the Ebola outbreak.
Erin:…
In this Spotlight, we talked with Elizabeth Sajewski about her experience working with epidemiologists in Kathmandu as an undergraduate, how storytelling and mathematical modeling go hand-in-hand in the creation of health risk assessments, and why you should explore broadly in public health.
Erin: As an undergrad, what did…
Amy Sweeny studies helminth infection in mice as a PhD student in Evolutionary Biology. Amy Sweeny wrote her Princeton thesis on helminth infection in mice as an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major. However, Amy’s evolution from undergraduate worm researcher to PhD worm researcher was not a straight path, she tried different job…
Over the past five years, Career Services at Princeton has been trying to reframe how undergraduates approach their career paths to a hypothesis-driven approach: Explore-Try-Reflect-Change, Explore-Try-Reflect-Change…
Fulbright Scholar, published author, Harvard resident, Stanford grad, Princeton grad: these are the terms used to describe Rachel Elise Rizal. A 2009 graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School, Rachel has followed her passion for healthcare delivery and health education to incredible places.
Rachel’s global health story truly begins with…
