The 2022 Center for Global Health Equity University Scholars engaged in immersive research experiences at global sites including South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda, and Pakistan. They collaborated with local partners in underserved communities in the USA and they sustained virtual research engagement across boundries. We are delighted to present the work of the 2022 Center for Global Health Equity University Scholars via their recorded poster presentations. Their initiative, couplied with their faculty and global community partner mentorship, builds the next generation of global leaders.
Please join us in recognizing their collective efforts and in thanking the generous donors who make this work possible.
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Project: Collaboratively adapting a telebehavioral mobile application to enhance patient-provider communication regarding cervical cancer prevention efforts in Bluefields, Nicaragua
Maria Geba, School of Medicine, Infectious Disease Fellow, 2024
Katherine Hall, School of Nursing, Doctoral candidate, 2024
Anneda Rong, School of Data Sciences, 2024
Project: Assessing Appalachian Perspectives of Healthcare
Stella Alexiou, College of Arts & Sciences, 2025, Global Public Health, Minor: Anthropology + African American Studies
Project: Scenes of Toxicity
Tichara Robertson and Tyler Busch, Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American/African Studies, University of Virginia
Principal Investigator: Professor Kwame Edwin Otu
Project: Evaluating the Water Quality Benefits of Adding a MadiDrop+ to Household Water Filters in Limpopo, South Africa
Julia Davis, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2022, Major: Civil Engineering, Minor: Engineering Business, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Masters in Public Policy, 2023
Maya Reese, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2025, Major: Chemical Engineering
Jamie Harris, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Doctoral candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2023
Project: Examining inequities in transportation access to maternal health services
Courtney Rogers, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Doctoral candidate, Systems Engineering, 2023
Sophia Jang, College of Arts & Sciences, 2024, Major: Undeclared (Anticipated: Global Public Health, English); Minor: Undeclared (Anticipated: Data Science)
Project: Improving Resuscitation Knowledge and Skills Retention in Pediatric Nurses at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali
Christle Ann de Vera, School of Nursing, Clinical Nurse Leader, 2023,
Zixiao (Annie) An, College of Arts & Sciences, 2022, Major: Human Biology, Statistics (Biostatistics concentration)
Annicole Buranych, School of Nursing, Masters of Science in Nursing, Clinical Nurse Leader, 2023
Emory McVeigh, School of Nursing, 2023, Masters of Science in Nursing-Clinical Nurse Leader
Bernice Fan, School of Nursing, 2023, Clinical Nurse Leader
Imani Duck, School of Nursing, 2023, Masters of Science in Nursing-Clinical Nurse Leader
Project: Healthy in the Hills Produce Prescription Project
Abigail Thornbury, College of Arts & Sciences, 2023, Major: Biology
Gabriella L. Hopper, College of Arts & Sciences, 2023, Major: Echols Interdisciplinary Major- Human Health
Project: Knowledge of and receptiveness to epidural labor analgesia in patients
Casey Fishman, College of Arts & Sciences, 2023, Major: French
Richita Bashyal, College of Arts & Sciences, 2022, Major: Biology
Project: Social Media Perceptions of HIV Treatment as Prevention: #UequalsU and #TasP
Sarah Whiteside, College of Arts & Sciences, 2023, Majors: Global Public Health & Biology
Project: The link between platelet activation and the altered gut microbiota of children with undernutrition/EED
Hamna Shafiq, College of Arts & Sciences, 2024, Major: Prospective Human Biology
Project: Operating Room Sustainability in Resource Limited Settings: A Case Study in Kigali, Rwanda
Lena Bichell, School of Medicine, University of Virginia
Project: ConexionesPositivas for COVID-19
Ketlin Maira Palacio Smith, College of Arts & Sciences, 2024, Major: Global Public Health
Project: Assessing HIV Care Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Eileen Misterovich, School of Medicine, 2025
Faculty Mentors: Andrew Strumpf, Kathleen McManus
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health
Project: Analysis of Mobile Health Application Community Board for People Living with HIV in Irkutsk, Siberia
Lisa Mayevsky, College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Dillingham, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health
Project: Droplet Digital PCR-Based Evaluation of Plasmepsin Copy Number in Malaria from Mozambique
Noah Brown, University of Virginia; Caroline Webb, University of Virginia; Clemente Silva, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Fatimah Nogueira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Jennifer Guler, University of Virginia