Director
Alicia Allen, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Associate Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences
Associate Professor, Public Health
Staff
Stephanie Mallahan, MPH
Research Associate
PhD Candidate, Clinical Translational Sciences
Partha Koundinya P
Graduate Research Assistant, The SOAR Project, The ORCHID Study
Abigail Martinez
Lead Research Assistant, The aUroRA Study, The SOAR Project, The ORCHID Study
Investigators
Julie Armin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Research Scholar Track)
Assistant Professor of Practice, Health Promotion Sciences
Director, Health Disparities Curriculum, College of Medicine – Tucson
Allison Huff MacPherson, DHEd
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Research Scholar Track)
Linnea Linde-Krieger, PhD, LCSW
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Research Scholar Track)
Nicole Person-Rennell, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine - Clinical Scholar Track
Lela Williams PhD
Associate Professor, Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson
Associate Director, Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson
Faculty Affiliate and Investigator, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center
Faculty Affiliate, University of Arizona Family Studies and Human Development
Trainees
Samantha Werts, MPH
Research Assistant, Project ATHENA
PhD Candidate, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Kyndall Kleinman
Research Assistant, The ROBIN Project, The ORCHID Study
Miracle Macias Burgos, MA
PhD student in the Clinical and Translational Sciences program
Former Team Members
Briana Choi, PharmD
Research Assistant, Project ATHENA
PhD Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences (Health and Pharmaceutical Outcomes)
Zahraa Alfatlawi
KEYS Summer Research Intern
Adela Diaz
Intern, The ORCHID Study
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Public Health
Kim Gonzalez
Intern, The ORCHID Study
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Physiology and Medical Sciences
Jessica Ives
Intern, Project ATHENA
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Physiology and Medical Sciences; Care, Health and Society
Camille Price
Intern, The ORCHID Study
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Biology
Ritika Ravindran
Intern, Project ATHENA and The PEACH Project
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Allison Sarko
Intern, The ORCHID Study
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Public Health
Yira Yakpogoro
Intern, The ORCHID Study
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Care, Health, and Society
Nina Almodova
FRONTERA Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Skyelynn (Skye) Bermudez
BLAISER Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Psychological Science with Minors in Public Health and Pre-Health
Yvonne Bueno, MPH, OTR/L
Research Assistant, Mom's Voice Project
DrPH in Maternal and Child Health, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Riana Chatterjee
KEYS Summer Research Intern
Kristi Ho
STEP UP Summer Research Intern, 2021
Brandeis University Undergraduate Student, Psychology and Health: Science, Society, & Policy with Minor in Social Justice & Social Policy
Abi Ilavarasan
Step UP Summer Research Intern
MPH Student, Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
Valerie LaBuda
KEYS Summer Research Intern, 2021
Paradise Valley High School Student, CREST Program with Bioscience concentration
Alexis Ortega
Summer Research Intern
MPH Student, Epidemiology, Columbia University
Manasi Palle
STEP-UP Summer Research Intern, 2021
The College of New Jersey Undergraduate Student - Public Health
Gabriel Tsai
BLAISER Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Physiology with Spanish Minor
Rosa Vasquez
FRONTERA Summer Research Intern, 2021
Aishwarya Acharya
PhD student in the Clinical and Translational Sciences program
Shraddha Patel
Intern, NIH/NIDA Summer Research Internship Program, The SOAR Study
