2024 R25 Fellows
The BDHSC would like to congratulate the 2024 R25 Fellows. Read on to learn more about our fellows, their mentors and proposed research.
Pieter Baker
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health
Proposed Research: Leveraging Big Data Approaches to Identify People who Inject in the Electronic Medical Record Database in South Carolina
Primary Mentor: Bankole Olatosi
Co-Mentor: Jiajia Zhang
Hui Chen
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
Proposed Research: SARS-CoV-2-Pathogenesis in Early Embryogenesis
Primary Mentor: Michael Shtutman
Co-Mentor: Sharon Weissman
Lelia Larson
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health
Proposed Research: Impact of Climate Change on Childhood Health, Infectious Disease, and Development
Primary Mentor: Melissa Nolan
Co-Mentor: Jiajia Zhang
Parthenia Luke
Research Assistant Professor, College of Social Work
Proposed Research: The Impact of Gentrification on COVID-19 Health Outcomes in South Carolina: A Big Data Approach
Primary Mentor: Xueying Yang
Co-Mentor: Bankole Olatosi
Yuan Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health
Proposed Research: Precision Phenotyping of Long COVID with Graph AI Models
Primary Mentor: Leonardo Bonilha
Co-Mentor: Homayoun Valafar
Yanfeng Xu
Assistant Professor, College of Social Work
Proposed Research: STIs and HIV Prevalence and Health Care Service Utilization Patterns and Disparities among Adolescents in Foster Care: Using Machine Learning Methods
Primary Mentor: Shan Qiao
Co-Mentor: Xueying Yang
