Graduate Students

Kevin Chen

Student Researcher
Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology

Degree Program: Ph.D.

Graduated: 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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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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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

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Andrea Tineo

Student Researcher
Industrial Hygiene

Degree Program: Masters of Public Health

Graduated: 2023

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Yuning Xu

Student Researcher
Industrial Hygiene

Degree Program: Master of Public Health

Expected graduation: 2022

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Project(s): Currently working on my capstone project that involves a systematic literature review about occupational exposure to silver nanomaterials. I'm planning to include all related literature published since January 2021 in supplement to the latest NIOSH report of AgNPs, and also include Chinese studies of this topic.

Desired Employment: Industry

Yishu Yan

Student Researcher
Human Factors & Ergonomics
Mechanical Engineering

Degree program: Ph.D.

Graduated: 2024

Area of interest: Wearable technology; WMSD prevention; Physical demand prediction

Projects: 1. Using IMU sensors, pressure insoles and deep learning model to predict occupational physical activities and lifting weights.
2. Using EMG sensors and IMU sensors to measure muscle activities when people gaming with different mice.

Desired Employment: Industry, Academia