Graduate Students

Simon Campo

Student Researcher
Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Expected graduation: 2024

Area(s) of Interest: Climate change, disease ecology, and health equity

Project(s): My research focuses on the environmental determinants of Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) in California. Specifically, I have been examining how different agricultural land use decisions influence disease distribution, how short- and long-term climatic conditions alter the seasonal dynamics of disease incidence, and how dust conditions mediate pathogen transmission....

Kevin Chen

Student Researcher
Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Expected Graduation: 2024

Area(s) of Interest: Causal inference, Bayesian sensitivity analysis, social epidemiology, and cancer

Project(s): Current research focuses on methods for addressing complex sources of bias in observational longitudinal cohorts, including the Healthy Worker Survivor Effect and informative delayed entry. These sources of bias threaten our ability to accurately estimate the causal effects of occupational exposures on worker health.

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Hilary Colbeth

Student Researcher
Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Graduated: 2024

Area(s) of Interest: Exposure-response models for occupational health studies, cardiovascular disease, health disparities

Project(s): Current research focuses on racial health disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality. "To do so, I am using a cohort mortality study of hourly workers at General Motors (GM) plants in Michigan. Specifically, I am examining the racial composition of the GM workforce across plants and over time to identify the cumulative impacts...

Mary Combs

Student Researcher
Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Graduated: 2023

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Mayela Gillan

Student Researcher
Industrial Hygiene

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Expected Graduation: 2025

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Project(s): Methodology for Estimating the Relative Dose and Lifetime Attributable Risk Associated with the Gamma Radiation Present on the Abandoned Uranium Mines on the Navajo Nation

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Michael Kado

Student Researcher
Industrial Hygiene

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Graduated: 2023

Area(s) of Interest: Exposure assessment, ventilation, air pollution.

Project(s): Investigating newly evolving occupational particulate matter risks - an industrial hygiene assessment using the NIOSH NORA objective framework during a pandemic

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Daniel Martin

Student Researcher
Agricultural Safety & Health

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Expected Graduation: 2026

Area(s) of Interest: Daniel is a new PhD trainee in Electrical and Computer Engineering working with Professor Vougioukas and Fathallah, who will be working on collaborative robotic solutions in agricultural settings to reduce the burden of musculoskeletal disorders on farmworkers. Daniel Received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with honors from UC Davis.

Project(s): Robots-Human Interface in Agriculture

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Monique Miller

Student Researcher
Industrial Hygiene

Degree Program: Masters of Public Health

Graduated: 2023

Area(s) of Interest: Occupational Health and Safety, EHS/IH consulting, Exposure/Risk Assessment, Workers’ Rights, Ventilation, Heat Stress, Indoor Air Quality

Project(s): Methods evaluation and comparison of ventilation assessment using low-cost instruments

Desired Employment: Consulting, Industry, Government

Aldo Munoz

Student Researcher
Industrial Hygiene

Degree Program: Masters of Public Health

Graduated: 2023

Area(s) of Interest: exposure assessment, hazard and risk communication

Project(s): Exposure Assessment of Food Truck Workers: An Evaluation of Cooking Emissions

Desired Employment: Industry, Consulting, or government

Testimony: A semester into my first year as a student trainee, I have felt supported, challenged, and motivated by the entire network...