Shannon Glennis a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Biobehavioral Health and a Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) predoctoral fellow.
Claudette, a summa cum laude graduate in Biology from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, is now a BBH graduate student focusing on health and wellness, particularly stress, mental and physical health, and inflammation.
Lourdes is a 4th year PhD student in BBH. Her work focuses on the intersection of nervios, gender, occupational injury, and housing conditions among Latino farmworkers.
Hridya is a dual-title PhD student in BBH & Clinical and Translational Sciences and uses epidemiologic and genetic data (from GHS, HCHS/SOL, and PAGE consortia) to study reproductive and cardiovascular conditions.
Graduate Student
Adviser: Jennifer Graham-Engeland
Summary Statement
Karina’s research focuses on how loneliness is associated with psychological and physiological mechanisms underlying health, with a particular focus on momentary and daily life assessment.
Katja's research focuses on factors that contribute to risky substance use among understudied adolescent and young adult populations through analysis of intensive longitudinal data.
Shannon is broadly interested in how health behaviors and psychological factors of occupational stress affect the overall health of first responders (e.g. firefighters, paramedics, law enforcement, and emergency nurses and physicians).
Qiaofeng is interested in understanding the impact of biopsychosocial factors on biological aging processes at physiological and molecular levels across the human lifespan.