Graduate Student Research Awards

Henry Anderson III Graduate Awards: recipients »

The GHI Graduate Student Research Awards are available to students pursuing a Ph.D. in any relevant discipline who are exploring topics that will enhance global health activities on the UW-Madison campus and beyond. These grants of up to $3,000 are for the duration of one year.

Applications for 2022 awards are closed.

The Henry Anderson III Graduate Student Award in Environmental and Occupational Public Health supports graduate and health professional. students pursuing research in those areas—that is the study of the role of environmental or occupational factors as determinants of health. Research topics might include (but not be exclusive to) health effects from pollution or toxins (air, water, food, noise, etc.), physical hazards (e.g. extreme climatic events), occupational hazards (workplace chemicals, biologicals, ergonomic issues, etc.), urban health (from urban design related to physical and/or mental health promotion) or ecosystem disruption and/or natural resource depletion and disease emergence.

Preference will be given to students in the schools of Medicine and Public Health, Pharmacy, Nursing and Veterinary Medicine, as well as those pursuing local and international environmental public health projects. GHI will make grants of a minimum of $1,500 for the duration of a year. The grant was offered for the first time in 2018.

Applications for 2022 awards are closed.

2022 Awards

Deforestation-zoonoses nexus on the edges of Indonesian plantations

Aida Arosoaie, M.S., doctoral student, Anthropology, College of Letters & Science

An experimental research: Does talking with chatbots reduce loneliness of young adults?

Principal Investigator: Jinyoung Choi, M.S., doctoral student, Communication Arts, College of Letters & Science (L&S); Catalina Toma, L&S

Health and conservation of chimpanzees through viral surveillance in sanctuaries across Africa

Emily Dunay, Pathobiological Sciences, VMD, doctoral student, Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM)
Principal Investigator: Tony Goldberg, SVM

Spatial-temporal associations between forest cover change and pediatric health indicators in selected sub-Saharan African countries

Thomas Leffler, MPH, doctoral student, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Patz, Nelson Institute

Where do metal contaminants go, and what do they do to plants?

Principal Investigator: Kate Thompson, M.Sc., doctoral student, Forestry and Wildlife Ecology, CALS

2021 Awards

One health and building bridges: An emerging disease at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Sierra Leone

Principal Investigator: Leah Owens, Ph.D., DVM candidate, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, with Tony Goldberg, Pathobiological Sciences

Microgrid and Micromobility for Healthcare

Principal Investigator: Rebecca Alcock, BS, MS, Ph.D., Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, with Justin Boutilier and Lennon Rodgers, Industrial and Systems Engineering

SSRI use during pregnancy has adverse impacts on placenta structure and function

Principal Investigator: Rafael Reis Domingues, DVM, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, with Laura Hernandez and Milo Wilback, Animal and Dairy Sciences

Optimization of Magnetic Particle Imaging for Brain Activity Acquisition

Principal Investigator: Ilhan Bok, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, with Aviad Hai and Jiamian Hu, Biomedical Engineering

Linking transportation planning and public health: From human behavior to policy design

Principal Investigator: Yicong Yang, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Midwifery and Maternal Health in Haiti

Principal Investigator: Corinne Hale, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, College of Letters and Science, with Claire Wendland, Anthropology

2020 Awards

Mosquitos Y Yo: Student Scientists in Ecuador

Principal Investigator: Chelsea Crooks, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Balancing Vitamin A and D intakes to optimize bone health in swine model

Principal Investigator: Jesse Sheftel, Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Perceived Radical Discrimination and Mental Health: The Role of Meaning-Making and Residential History

Principal Investigator: Pauline Ho, Department of Educational Psychology, School of Education

Healthy children, healthy chimps: reducing respiratory disease transmission from humans to chimpanzees

Principal Investigator: Taylor Weary, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Culturally Responsive Evaluation—Ghanian Farmers

Principal Investigator: Laura Livingston, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

From uncertainty into survival: reproduction in the Sierra Leonean Ebola outbreak

Principal Investigator: Kelsey Wright, Department of Sociology, College of Letters & Science

2019 Awards

CLIMATE-RELATED SOCIAL VULNERABILITY IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS

Principal Investigator: Hugh Roland, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health

MAGIC MIRROR, MAGIC MIRROR, AM I ATTRACTIVE: THE EFFECT OF AUTO-BEAUTY FILTERS ON COLLEGE FEMALE STUDENTS’ SELF-EVALUATION

Principal Investigator: Niu Yanzhuo, Department of Educational Psychology, School of Education

INTERPRETATION OF COVARIATION DATA: THE INFLUENCE OF SYMMETRY OF VARIABLES

Principal Investigator: Rui Meng, Department of Educational Psychology, School of Education

CULTURAL VALUES SHAPE THE STRESS HORMONE RESPONSE TO PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS

Principal Investigator: Jeong Ha Choi, Department of Psychology, College of Letters & Science

CONNECTING FARMERS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND WELL-BEING IN CENTRAL MALAWI

Principal Investigator: Julia Reynolds, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Geography, College of Letters & Science

A PILOT STUDY: CLOSING THE REHABILITATION SERVICE UTILIZATION GAPS OF NEW ZEALAND’S (AOTEAROA) MAORI PEOPLE

Principal Investigator: Ngonidzashe Mpofu, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education, School of Education

Previous Grants

Friendships, Technology and the Transition to College: How College Students' Well-being and Adjustment to College is Affected by Their Use of Communication Technologies to Maintain Friendships

Chelsea Olson, Ph.D. candidate, School of Education

Mentor: Catalina Toma, associate professor of communication arts

Unintended Reactance to Health Campaigns and the Presumably Influenced Public

Jinha Kim, Ph.D. candidate, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Mentor: Hernando Rojas, professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

The Role of New Media and Communication in Youth-Driven Mental Health Promotion Initiatives in Underserved Communities in British Columbia, Canada

Ornella Hills, Ph.D. candidate, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Satellite Data for Air Pollution Exposure and Public Health

Seohyun Choi, Ph.D. candidate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Mentor: Tracey Holloway, professor of environmental studies

Protecting Children from Junk Food Online Game: Introducing Stop-And-Take-a-Break Intervention Strategy

Eunji Cho, Ph.D. candidate, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of oral rabies vaccination of vampire bats in Mexico

Elsa Cardenas Canales, Ph.D. candidate, School of Veterinary Medicine

Mentor: Jorge Osorio, professor of pathobiological sciences

Learning from the outsider within: Adolescent pregnancy as constructed, experienced and negotiated by adolescent girls and boys

Selah Agaba, Ph.D. candidate in education policy studies and anthropology

Quantifying the Air Quality and Human Health Benefits of Energy Efficiency in the U.S.

David Abel, Ph.D. candidate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

IMPACT OF HOSPITAL ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP POLICIES IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Kaitlin Mitchell, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Population Health Sciences

CULTURE SHAPES APPRAISAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR RECOVERY FROM ANXIETY

Jia Yoo, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Psychology

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN PARENT-CHILD ENDORSEMENT OF GERM AND COLD WEATHER THEORIES OF THE COMMON COLD

Iseli Hernandez, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Psychology

THE EFFECTS OF PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO THE KOREAN WAR ON HEALTH AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES

Taehoon Kim, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics

STRONG HEALTH INSTITUTIONS IN WEAK STATES: INVESTIGATING SUCCESSFUL DRUG CONTROL IN NIGERIA

Michael Roll, graduate student, Department of Sociology

MOVING AWAY FROM BIOMASS BURNING TO DECREASE INFANT MORTALITY: EVIDENCE FROM LPG POLICIES IN THAILAND

Thanicha Ruangmas, graduate student, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

MOTHER, DAUGHTER, SCHOOLGIRL: STUDENT PREGNANCY AND READMISSION POLICY IN MALAWI’S ERA OF EDUCATION FOR ALL

Rachel Silver, Ph.D. candidate anthropology and educational policy studies

HIV RISK BEHAVIOR, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, AND MARRIAGE AMONG CHINESE MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN: AN EXAMINATION BASED ON THE MINORITY STRESS MODEL

Shufang Sun, Ph.D. candidate in counseling psychology

CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN ENVIRONMENTAL, WILDLIFE AND HUMAN HEALTH: AN EVALUATION OF WEST NILE VIRUS IN WISCONSIN

Jonny Uelmen, graduate student researcher in Environment and Resources/Epidemiology, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

USING A RESIDENTIAL SORTING MODEL TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URBAN GREEN SPACE AND HEALTH

Austin Williams, graduate research assistant, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

SELF CONTROL IN INTERRUPTION TASK-SWITCH BEHAVIOR: THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND TEMPTATION

Ranran Zhu, Ph.D. candidate, School of Journalism and Mass Communications

INVESTIGATION OF THE RESERVOIR COMPETENCY OF TWO RESIDENT PASSERINE BIRDS FOR WEST NILE VIRUS

Emily Cornelius, graduate student, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology

MEASURING INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN HEALTH CONCEPTS TO DETERMINE HEALTH OUTCOMES

Matthew J. Jiang, graduate student, Department of Psychology

Mentor: Karl Rosengren, Ph.D., professor, Department of Psychology

THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF ANTIBIOTIC MISUSE: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY IN RURAL INDIA

Anna Barker, Ph.D., M.D., Epidemiology in the Department of Population Health

Mentor: Nasia Safdar, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, School of Medicine and Public Health

THE SUBNATIONAL POLITICS OF DOCTRINAL GENDER POLICIES: BACKLASHES TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN MEXICO

Camilla Reuterswaerd, graduate student, Department of Political Science

LEVERAGING EVIDENCE BASED SYSTEM-RELATED STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE MEDICATION SAFETY IN ETHIOPIAN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS

Ephrem A. Aboneh, graduate student, Social & Administrative Sciences, School of Pharmacy

Mentor: Michelle A. Chui, PharmD, Ph.D., assistant professor, Social & Administrative Sciences in the School of Pharmacy

RISK OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE TO EMERGING BAT VIRUSES IN UGANDA

Andrew J. Bennett, Ph.D. student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Mentor: Tony L. Goldberg, Ph.D., DVM, M.S., professor, epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine

APPLICATION OF FEMINIST INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH TO HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE MODEL: INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORETICAL INTEGRATION

Yangsun Hong, Ph.D. student, School of Journalism & Mass Communication

Mentor: Shawnika Hull, M.A., Ph.D., assistant professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication