Students

The Center faculty work with PhD students throughout their time at SPH, providing the opportunity to obtain bench research experience, analysis, modeling and vaccine effectiveness research experience.

For more information about the programs offered in Epidemiology, please visit the Epidemiology Prospective Students Page.

To discuss, opportunities in our Center, please reach out to Center Manager, Lara Thomas (ljthomas@umich.edu).

Doctoral Students

Sarah BassiouniSarah Bassiouni
Program/affiliation/area of speciality: Epidemiology (molecular, infectious disease, social), global health, social determinants of health and health disparities, geospatial analysis, demography
Email address: sbassiou@umich.edu 

Joshua Foster-TuckerJoshua Foster-Tucker 
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: The intersection of infectious disease epidemiology, epigenetics, and geroscience
Email address: tuckjosh@umich.edu  

Berhanu GebremeskelBerhanu Gebremeskel
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiological Science, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Vaccines, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Global Health
Email address: bgebreme@umich.edu 

Jessica IbiebeleJessica Ibiebele
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
Email address: jibiebel@umich.edu

Kalee RumfeltKalee Rumfelt
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
Email address: rumfeltk@umich.edu 

Jade YangJade Yang
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Global Health, Vaccine Science and Policy, Virology
Email address: jadeyang@umich.edu  

Troy ZhouTroy Zhou
Program/affiliation/area of specialty: Modeling, population health, chronic diseases, infectious disease epidemiology
Email address: zzrtroy@umich.edu 

Caleb Jelsma-Cale
Weronika Damek Valano
Skyler Rogers
Rachel Zumberg

Kendra Le
Emily Mitchell