Graduate Students

GA at the Kaplan Center,  Event Operations 
2nd Year MPH Student  
Email: nmallred2@uncg.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Physical Education
• Health Promotion

Teaching & Graduate Assistant
PhD Candidate  
Email: jabaile6@uncg.edu 

CLASSES TAUGHT

FALL 2021

• HEA 307 – 3 Global Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Mental health of Latino migrant & seasonal farmer workers

1st Year PhD Student  
Email: emcamach@uncg.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Epidemiology
• Poverty
• Cancer

Graduate Assistant
2nd Year PhD Student  
Email: p_privit@uncg.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Prevention science and health interventions for marginalized youth
• Substance use and mental health
• Social determinant of health

2nd Year Ph.D. Student  
Email: edharr@uncg.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Health Equity
• Minority Health
• Health Disparities

CURRENT PROJECTS

Voices of Reproductive Justice

Mindfulness for Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice, E. Harr, MPH Candidate

1st Year MPH Student
Email: c_hartle@uncg.edu

Research Interests

• Youth and LGBTQIA+
• Race, social justice, and health

1st Year MPH Student
Email: YOIKAZOBOH@uncg.edu

Research Interests

• Health promotion and disease prevention
• Lifestyle as a social determinant of health

Summer Graduate Assistant (GA) Dr. Sharon Morrison & Dr. Maura Nsonwu (NC State) working to qualitatively assess foreign-born faculty’s experiences with teaching undergraduates at US institutions

Teaching Associate (TA) for fall 2023-spring 2024 for Dr. Morrison
Teaching: HEA 201-4 Personal Health, fall 2023
2nd Year Ph.D. Student 
Email: d_mabiala@uncg.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Refugee mental health
• Religious coping
• Mental health stigma
• Nutrition
• Community engaged research

1st Year Ph.D. Student
Graduate Assistant (GA) with Dr. Sharon Morrison (CERSA Lab)
Teaching: HEA 307 – Global Health  
Email: t_jurisic@uncg.edu

Research interests

• Maternal Health Equity
• Refugee Healthcare
• NGOs and Humanitarian Corridors
• Intimate Partner Violence

Teaching Assistant
6th Year PhD Student
Graduate Student Instructor
UNCG Certified Health & Wellness Coach
Dissertation chair – Dr. Michael Perko  
Email: a_lee7@uncg.edu 

CLASSES TAUGHT

HEA 201 Personal Health

HEA 310 – Mental Health and Well-Being

HEA 260 – Human Sexuality

HEA 433 Gender and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities
• Chronic Disease Management in African American Families 
• Process Model of Family Functioning
• Intersectionality
• Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research

3rd Year Ph.D. Student  
Email: tvlocklear@uncg.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

•  Indigenous Health
• Suicide Prevention
• Addiction and Recovery
• Aging

3rd Year PhD Student  
Email: jplucas@uncg.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Global Health
• Community Engagement
• HIV/AIDS
• Infectious Diseases
• Health Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minorities

Graduate Assistant (GA) for North Carolina LGBTQ Domestic Violence Response Initiative
Graduate Assistant (GA) for The Center for Student Well-Being
2nd Year MPH Student  
Email: ksmabine@uncg.edu 

Research Interests

• Improve the quality of life for minority groups ie Black people and People of Color, LGBTQ+ individuals and communities, and oppressed and underserved groups while using an intersectional framework

Office Assistant for HealthyUNCG
1st Year MPH  
Email: mtpepe@uncg.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Chronic and Infectious disease
• Epidemiology

With a Bachelor’s degree in Science concentration Nutrition and Wellness I have become infatuated with promoting health to prevent chronic and infectious diseases. My overall career goal is to be a Health Coach in the Healthcare system.

Research Assistant with Dr. Jennifer Erausquin and Dr. Sharon Morrison
2nd Year Ph.D. Student
Email: nzqamar@uncg.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Global health
• Refugee and immigrant health
• Human trafficking prevention
• Gender based-violence

PhD Candidate
Email: ntrashwa@uncg.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Global health
• Immigrant and refugee health
• Mental health and psychosocial support

1st Year PH.D. Student
Email: metrattner@uncg.edu

Research interests

• Health Communication
• Systems Thinking
• Sexual & Reproductive Health

MPH Candidate
Email: v_webb@uncg.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• How the Mediterranean eating pattern affects minority populations’ health and how effective it is in chronic disease prevention amongst minority populations
• Identification the barriers to eating healthy in limited-resource communities and how to overcome those barriers

3rd Year MPH Student  
Email: ylwyrick@uncg.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Sexual identity
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Infectious diseases
• Mental Health
• Suicide prevention

2nd Year MPH Student  
Email: jtyates@uncg.edu 

Research Interests

• Drug Policy and Harm Reduction