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Commencement Program Graduate List

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2026 UCBPH Commencement Program

DrPH - Doctor of Public Health

  • Juan Carlos Bordes
    Advancing Emotional Health Equity: Structural Approaches to Sustaining the Well-being of the Occupational Therapy Workforce
    Dissertation Chairs: Hector Rodriguez & Emmeline Chuang
  • Marisol De Ornelas
    Reimagining Perinatal Care to Advance Maternal Health Equity: A Mixed-Methods Study of a Community-Centered Care Model and Postpartum Depression Prevention
    Dissertation Chair: Julianna Deardorff
  • Ravneet Gill
    Data Disaggregation to Advance Equitable Breast Cancer Prevention for Asian Americans
    Dissertation Chair: Hector Rodriguez
  • Rouselinne Gomez Cifuentes
    An Analysis of Novel person-centered and rights-based measures in the Contraception Field
    Dissertation Chair: Ndola Prata
  • Bhavya Joshi
    Reaching the Furthest Behind, First: Reproductive Health during Compounded Crises in Kenya’s Refugee Settlements
    Dissertation Chair: Ndola Prata
  • Mounika Parimi
    Matrescence, Metabolic Risk, and the Life Course: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Risk after Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy 
    Dissertation Chair: Cassondra Marshall
  • Nadia Rojas
    Voices from the Fields: Sleep, Cognitive Function, and Social Determinants of Health Among Latinas in an Agricultural Community
    Dissertation Chairs: Jacqueline Torres & Julianna Deardorff
  • Cara Schulte
    Perinatal Vulnerability to Climate Change and Extreme Heat in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    Dissertation Chair: Laura H. Kwong

Biostatistics PhD

  • Maggie Keying Kuang
    Statistical and Computational Methods for Interpretable Analysis of High-Dimensional Data
    Dissertation Chair: Elizabeth Purdom
  • Yi Li
    Regularized Targeted Learning under Analytic Intractability: Projection-Guided Targeting and Grouped V-Fold Jackknife Inference
    Dissertation Chair: Mark van der Laan
  • Tian Qiu
    Advances in Targeted Learning for Real-World Evidence Generation: Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Data Integration, and Two-Phase Sampling Problems
    Dissertation Chair: Mark van der Laan
  • George Shan
    Development of New Estimators and Applications in Genomics using Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation
    Dissertation Chair: Mark van der Laan
  • Xueda Shen
    Facets of nowcasting: latency, revision and uncertainty quantification
    Dissertation Chair: Ryan Tibshirani
  • Wenxin Zhang
    Targeted Learning for Adaptive Experimentation and Data-Driven Decision-Making
    Dissertation Chair: Mark van der Laan

Environmental Health Sciences PhD

  • Simon Camponuri
    Statistical and machine learning approaches for understanding infectious disease dynamics in response to environmental change: applications to emerging fungal diseases
    Dissertation Chair: Justin Remais
  • Laura Margaret Díaz
    Examining the role of mitochondrial DNA in the biological embedding of childhood adversity and its influence on atopic disease risk in a predominantly Black and Latinx pediatric cohort
    Dissertation Chair: Rosemarie de la Rosa
  • Marley Zalay
    Exposure Experiences Among Communities and Farmworkers in California: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Air Pollution Exposures, Perceptions, and Report-Back Methods
    Dissertation Chair: S. Katharine Hammond

Epidemiology PhD

  • Julia Acker
    Embodying Inequality in Adolescence: Racialized Patterns of Mental Health and Pubertal Development Across Place and Time
    Dissertation Chair: Mahasin Mujahid
  • Caitlin Sheaulin Chan
    Examining the structure of neighborhood violence and pathways of embodiment on intergenerational health among California births from 2007–2018
    Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Ahern
  • Sylvia Si Cheng
    Advancing Precision Health Through Robust Statistical Methods: Leveraging Causal Inference and Uncertainty Quantification in Epidemiologic and Clinical Research
    Dissertation Chair: Barbara Laraia
  • Saron Goitom
    Violence, Segregation, and Health Across the Life Course: Measurement and Early-Life Impacts
    Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Ahern
  • Emily Fu-ting Liu
    Epidemiologic evidence on community violence and women’s health: Trends, disparities, and mediating pathways
    Dissertation Chair: Jennifer Ahern
  • Isabel Munoz
    Social disparities in attainment of pregnancy preferences or poor measurement? An examination of “unintended pregnancy” using the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale
    Dissertation Chair: Mahasin Mujahid
  • Eric Stewart
    Residential Proximity to Oil and Gas Wells and Risk of Childhood and Adolescent Leukemia
    Dissertation Chairs: Patrick Bradshaw & Catherine Metayer

Health Policy PhD

  • Qi Jiang
    Early Childhood Development and Caregiver Mental Health in Rural China: Evidence from Intervention and Implementation Studies
    Dissertation Chair: Lia Fernald
  • Alex Schulte
    How Do Religious Directives Affect Hospital Operations, Access to Care, and Patient Outcomes? Evidence from U.S. Catholic Hospitals
    Dissertation Chair: Amanda Brewster
  • Erlfang Tsai
    Essays on Programs and Policies to Support Child, Caregiver, and Family Well-Being
    Dissertation Chair: Lia Fernald

Infectious Diseases and Immunity PhD

  • Carolina Agudelo
    The impact of the gut microbiome on respiratory pathogens
    Dissertation Chairs: Ashley Wolf & Sarah Stanley
  • Elias Duarte
    The Antigenic Landscape of Dengue Immunity: Epitope Specificity, Fc Function, and Correlates of Protection and Risk
    Dissertation Chair: Eva Harris
  • Reinaldo Mercado-Hernandez
    Obesity, Dengue Virus Infection Risk, and Antibody Responses in Children: Epidemiological and Immunological Insights
    Dissertation Chair: Eva Harris
  • Felix Pahmeirer
    Mechanisms of vascular leak triggered by viral pathogens
    Dissertation Chair: Eva Harris 

Biostatistics Master's

  • Biostatistics - MA
    • Cherno Barry
    • Sylvia Si Cheng
    • Emily Hou
    • Zixin Li
    • Sankhepo Ndhlovu
    • John Su
    • Haotian Sun
    • Dirk Antony Tolson III
    • Mingxun Wang
    • Yutine Wu

Environmental Health Sciences Master's

  • EHS - MS
    • Jordan Prather
  • EHS - MPH
    • Deborah Siengthang Chhun
    • Alejandro Fabian
    • Parisa Kavousi
    • Dhruv Patel
    • Mariah Angelresza Basiloy Peralta
    • Alicia Qi
    • Alexander Ben-Hua Shing
    • Stella Shu-Yi Wang
    • Yipeng Wei
    • Jane Wynne
    • Yuhui Zhou
  • EHS - MPH - Industrial Hygiene
    • Jamie Lyanne Gonzales Baranda
    • Ashley Kochans
    • Vaidehi Persad
    • Sara Tepfer
    • Yitong Tian
  • EHS - MPH – Global Health and Environment
    • Lily Borak
    • Sofia Herron Geller
    • Douglas Kramer
    • Amy Kuriakose
    • Yi-Hsun Lin
    • Gabrielle McGinty
    • Chloe Ortiz

Epidemiology Master's

  • Epidemiology - MS
    • Jessica Elizabeth Arbuckle
    • Aaron Du
  • Epidemiology - MPH
    • Gilberto Osuna-Leon
    • Nethra Srinivasan
    • Maddie Taylor
    • Heather Tucker
    • Ryan Whitacre
  • Epidemiology - Epidemiology / Biostatistics MPH
    • Guillen Jyde Austria
    • Nakaya Frazier
    • Isaac Frimpong
    • Shreya Gautam
    • Grace Gundy
    • Nylah Hassaan-Warren
    • Ningji He
    • Junting He
    • Katryn Heine
    • Mam Roheya Jack
    • Eric Jiang
    • Adam Kazden
    • Neaka Zarandian Mohtashemi
    • Osagie Oaiya
    • Claire Payne
    • Racquel Argentina Richardson
    • Hannah Rishik
    • Eda Yilmaz
    • Cynthia Yu
  • Epidemiology - Epidemiology / Biostatistics 4+1 MPH
    • Juliet Del Core
    • Audrey Ko
    • Nethra Koushik
    • Aidan Lee
    • Katie McDermott
    • Britney Le Nguyen
    • Andrew Perera
    • Jenelle Soo
    • Caitlin Subijanto
    • Serena Wang

Health Policy and Management Master's

  • HPM - MPH
    • Lucas Grant Calica
    • Mharidhen Castrence Chea
    • Anya Fang
    • Blen Gebremeskel
    • Sylvia Kimwei
    • Cassidy Kirk
    • Isabelle Knowles
    • Ratu Orisi Lalabalavu
    • Medha Lohani
    • Jessica McLaughlin
    • Christine Megariotis
    • Sophia Moreno
    • Noah Palafox
    • Kegan Schroeter
    • Claire Schutz
    • Hannah Silber
    • Devon Sternberg
    • Swapnika Tantravahi
    • Svetlana Tauzhnyanskaya
    • Minh-Tram Tran
  • HPM - MPH/MBA
    • Emma Benjamin
    • Catherine Cala
    • Manini Desai
    • Dominik Gorecki
    • Anna Gurney
    • Colton Hess
    • Trey Jackson
    • Jennifer Lam
    • Nathali Lizerbram
    • André Moliterno Pena de Freitas
    • Julia Roccato
    • Margo Salah
    • Masato Takeda
  • HPM - MPH/MPP
    • Cynthia Alvarado Martinez
    • Bruce Arao
    • Kirsta Hackmeier
    • Leah Hill
    • Celia Johnson

Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology Master's

  • IDV - MPH
    • Justin Chitxia Thao
    • Katherine Coll
    • Jiaqian Dong
    • Kaya Duncan
    • Stephanie Fruth
    • Riley Michelle Hagerman
    • Mehrab Ahnaf Hussain
    • Valeria Landa-Rosales
    • Natalia Ally Msami
    • Alma Ngwa Ebot
    • Mario Orantes
    • Steven Palomares
    • Nabeel Razi
    • Oleander Redmond
    • Adia Inez Robles
    • Velangani Thathireddy
    • Grace India Toolsie
    • Maile Elizabeth Wood
    • Hansen Xiao

Interdisciplinary Master's

  • IDI - MPH
    • Keegan Bowers
    • Jared Cheatham
    • Akhila Chilakala
    • Jacky Chu
    • Rose Dizon
    • Tifanny Fransisca
    • Jesse Garcia
    • Maxwell Ho
    • Kai Huang
    • Vinith Ilavarasan
    • Sophie Jin
    • Vibhu Krishna
    • Gabriela Medina Falzone
    • Patrick Hoang Nguyen
    • Veronica Njuguna
    • Katy Pham
    • Hector Rivera-Marrero
    • Lauren Rivkin
    • Christine Rizkala

Health and Social Behavior Master's

  • HSB - MPH
    • Grace Allensworth Brown
    • Theodore James Bussell
    • Haley Elise Neumann
    • Marnelle Nicolette Cruz
    • Nouran Usama Fadle
    • Hannah Lillian Fishbein
    • Alissa Ting Leung
    • Yu Ma
    • Edwina Mariel
    • Francisco Javier Ortiz
    • Jeremy Esteban Rodriguez
    • Avigail Romo
    • Marni Shabash
    • Elinor Simek
    • Cieara Chantel Simmons
    • Verenice Tagle
    • Dante Angel Teves Miguel Jr.

Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Master's

  • MCAH - MPH
    • Keira Beltran Murillo
    • Jianna Footman
    • Noemi Burgos Franco
    • Chloe Hood
    • Anjali Leela Jain
    • Sydney Anne McFadden
    • Talia Neally
    • Jordyn Rand-Mulitauopele
    • Samantha Melanie Tapia
    • Agere Teshale
    • Yuna Tomimasu
    • Emily Rose Ward
    • Mackinzie Warne-McGraw
  • MCAH - 4+1 MPH
    • Nareh Haroutonian
    • Thao Nhi Phan Nguyen

Food, Nutrition and Population Health Master's

  • FNPH - MPH
    • Kathryn Sophia Bowman
    • Victoria Brown
    • Joyce Chan
    • Kathryn Forth
    • Farnaaz Khoyloo
    • Char Potes
    • Claire Young
  • FNPH - MPH - Dietetic Internship
    • Tanya Amador
    • Ainsley Fleming-Wood
    • Victoria Alejandra García
    • Jairo Guzman
    • Tiffany Lei
    • Zoee Tanner
    • Yunle Wang
    • Rebekah Xie

UC Berkeley Public Health Online MPH

  • Online MPH - Epidemiology/Biostatistics
    • Jason Auyoung
    • Juliana Barros Verruck
    • Camille Brown
    • Chin Chen
    • Sarah Chin
    • Erin Curlee
    • Rahel Getaneh
    • Leah Gibbs
    • Maria Camila Gonzalez Rocha
    • Alexis Gresham
    • Tywana Groce
    • Madeleine Hill
    • Lucien LaFerr
    • Audrey Lopez-Valdez
    • Iffat Jahan Lowra
    • Angela Mackie
    • Innocent Menyo
    • Emily Montenegro
    • Ugonne Onyiah
    • Pamela Pichon
    • Muthukumar Rajamohan
    • Thomas Rogan
    • Clarissa Ann Sandvik
    • Valerie Stacey
    • Brooke Stimmel
    • Ash Stivers
    • Ronald Tamale
    • Ana Terzo
    • Soungsothira Toch
    • Samya Varadarajan
    • Beilin Wang
    • Ariana Waters
    • Olivia West
  • Online MPH - Food, Nutrition and Population Health
    • Patrick Arceo
    • Tyjuana Best Atkinson
    • Audrey Thu-Mai Connell
    • Jazmin Dominguez Ramirez
    • Susan Michelle Flynn
    • Hannah Guenther
    • Diana Jackowitz
    • Erika Sarabia
    • Giselle Vanessa Zuniga
  • Online MPH - Health Policy and Management
    • Anthony Arton
    • Mohammad Ayman Azizuddin
    • Kenneth Chan
    • Johnathon Corbin
    • Gabriela Garcia-Ruvalcaba
    • Melissa Geach
    • Oliver J. Gonzalez Bobadilla
    • Leeza Henderson-Stone
    • Riana King
    • Kilani Marie Morris Klette
    • Jenny McCoy
    • Kalisha McLendon
    • Matthew J Metz
    • Jenny Niblock
    • Roblen Guevarra Nieblas
    • Ruth Nwatu
    • Monalisa Nzenwa
    • Ken Park
    • Nichole Perisho
    • Amit Randhawa
    • Lisa Ann Rantz
    • idan Roy Keanaaina
    • Michelle Saenz
    • Sylvia Saxena
    • Teresa Shinder
    • Sara Taghizadegan
    • Andrew Tyler
    • Clara Wu
  • Online MPH - Interdisciplinary
    • Meron G. Abebe
    • Emily Adam
    • Camille Altmann
    • Estefani Alvarez
    • Tehilah Baker
    • Kylin Beeson
    • Saleena Kristine Brownell
    • Margaret Callaway
    • Anna Campbell
    • Devony Canlas
    • Angelina Cayabyab
    • Evelyn Choy
    • Laura MacMaster Dean
    • Amanda Rose Flores
    • Radwa Ragab Gebreil
    • Jessica Ann George
    • Abigail Joy Gerty
    • Kelsey Giroux Maule
    • Lizbeth Gonzalez
    • Sukanya Govindan
    • Rexanne Kelley Greenstreet
    • Megan Irene Greig
    • Julieanna Wenjing Guo
    • Shinkai Hakimi
    • Hannah Lee Hassler
    • Kimberly Haverly
    • Vicki Ip
    • Christine Kanoff
    • Caleb Kelleher
    • Rupsha Khan
    • Julian Levine
    • Jolie Limon-Brownell
    • Amelia Lipscomb
    • Ruth Lopez
    • Kaysha Madison
    • Michael McGill
    • Hannah Miller
    • Celene Marie Olson
    • Lauren Oommen
    • Ana Ortiz Ramos
    • Kristy Palomares
    • Bianca Michelle Patino
    • Kim Pinto
    • Nissa Porter
    • Pamela Rose Mancio Ramos
    • Erick Cortes Rangel
    • Sarah Reed-Guy
    • Mónica Romero
    • Rosenity Ros
    • Cassandra Silvestre
    • Marisa Smith
    • Yinchen Song
    • Keleni Micheal Tukia
    • Myriam Virella
    • Kara Waples
    • Sara Watrous
    • Aaron Michael Winden
    • Virginia Wrobel
    • Ethan Yau

Student Awards

  • Alum of the Year
    Joseph O’Neill, MD, MPH
    Class of 1983
  • Meredith A. Minkler Award
    Bhavya Joshi, DrPH
    Awardee Program: Doctor of Public Health
  • Sheldon Margen Award
    Shrida Pandey
    Awardee Program: Undergraduate Public Health
  • Henrik L. Blum Award for Distinguished Social Action
    Destiny Brijettney Ceja
    Awardee Program: Undergraduate Public Health
  • Zak Sabry Faculty Mentorship Award
    • Colette (Coco) Auerswald, MD, MS ’89
    • Andrew Mertens PhD ’20, MS ’16, MA ’20

Undergraduate

  • Public Health BA - Honors Thesis
    • Millie Kaur Batra
    • Katherine Jeiyun Chen
    • Bianca Chiu
    • Shreya Gunda
    • Mandy Huang
    • Rachel Jean Lee
    • Elaina Lee
    • Helena Liu
    • Trisha Sengupta
    • Emily Tsai
  • Public Health BA - Phi Beta Kappa Honors
    • Adinath Paul Wayne Lane
    • Shrida Pandey
    • Soumya Rai
  • Public Health BA (Last Name A–G)
    • Jayson Abarca Gamez
    • Abigail Abraham
    • Joud Abughalia
    • Maria Adame
    • Prathana Adhikari
    • Anoushka Adusumalli
    • Misha Afnani
    • Marianna Afremov
    • Destiny Aka
    • Anisa Israt Alam
    • Alec Alvarado
    • Ximena Alvarez Gallegos
    • Saba Amin
    • Haya Ansari
    • Aaliyah Desiree Arellanes
    • Jessica Marie Arenas
    • Piero Arienti
    • Daniela Isabel Arreola
    • Marlene Dolores Avalos Mier
    • Ava Nicole Axelson
    • Ghassan Bassem Azizeh
    • Yasmine Baker
    • Jasleen Kaur Bal
    • Samantha Celeste Becaria
    • Estefany Bejar
    • Aayushma Bhandari
    • Manav Bhavsar
    • Christopher Boghossian
    • Hailey Sharon Burnsed
    • Uriel Cardoza
    • Juliana Maria Carrasco
    • Anali Casarrubias
    • Reyna Victoria Cedillo
    • Destiny Brijettney Ceja
    • Katie Choi
    • Crystal Antoinette Crisologo Chu
    • Rachel Chung
    • Kathryn Anne Clark
    • Adolfo Correa Reveles
    • Alexa Cortes
    • Lesslie Idhaly Cuevas
    • Saide Annely Curiel
    • Grace Catherine Dallarda
    • Anvi Damani
    • Leila Naomi Dela Pena
    • Alannah Mayleen Delacruz
    • Trisha Devchoudhury
    • Lelani Do
    • Cassidy Lee Doffermyre
    • Santiago Azad Dordi
    • Jaina K Doshi
    • Vane Michelle Dueñas
    • Jackson Englar-Carlson
    • Johanna Michelle Figueroa
    • Catherine Flowers
    • Evelyn Carolina Fontan
    • Chloe Le-Yi Foo
    • Ava Fu
    • Carla Imelda Fuentes Martinez
    • Frances Ellison Gabrielli di Carpegna
    • Qu Lene Go
    • Lia O Green
    • Evelyn Raquel Guia Flores
    • Lavanya Gupta
  • Public Health BA (Last Name H–P)

    Ryder John Hagan

    Isabella Faith Hei

    Maia Elizabeth Hernandez

    Maia Hernandez

    Matthew Ho

    Tiffany Hoang

    Wun Yue Hou

    Ryan Hsu

    Tina Hua

    Lisset Huerta

    Tayla Blue Hufford

    Kathy Huynh

    Mya Alessandra Ibarra

    Riya Irigireddy

    Arjun Ramesh Jadhav

    Sanjam Jajj

    Shreya Jariwala

    Joelle Marina Jones

    Kimberly Gabriela Julian

    Matthew Kang

    Mia Isabelle Kasilag

    Mia Midori Katsuyoshi

    Aisha Khan

    Hanna Kaitlyn Kim

    Sean Jison Kim

    Nayha Kshirsagar

    Sunwoo Kwak

    Adinath Paul Wayne Lane

    Wilton Patrick Lawton

    Duyen Le

    Paloma Leal Perez

    Vincent Lee

    Taven Rose del Fierro Lemon

    Mariana Leyva

    Michelle Li

    Selina Li

    Audrey Liang

    Kaylene Hikari Lin

    Tianrun Liu

    Jasmine Lobo

    Dulce Alysea Napoles Loreto

    Lana Makarem

    Kristel Olenka Mantilla Ulloa

    Sara Mattu

    Giana Michele Joann Medina

    Sameera Menon

    Sofia Elizabeth Miracco

    Juliette Marinne Moschetti

    Jayita Mukunda

    Ayra Ali Mumtaz

    Gautam Abhang Naik

    Shubhankar Abhang Naik

    Annika Heewon Nam

    Tianne Nguyen

    Caitlyn Cat Nhi Nguyen

    Ivan Nguyen

    Allison Nguyen

    Rebecca Sage Noble

    Thanh Nghiep Ong

    Aracely Guadalupe Orozco

    Ffion Imuwahen Osahon

    Gracie Osborne

    Shrida Pandey

    Katherine D. Park

    Navreet Kaur Pattar

    Patricia Fonseca Perez

    Katelynn Vivian Ngoc Pham

    Kimberly Phuong Pham

    Han Pham

    Allern Phun

    Srujana Poluri

    Ainsley Porter

    Vinayak Nikhil Prathikanti

  • Public Health BA (Last Name Q–Z)
    • Catalina You Quach
    • Soumya Rai
    • Michael Dominic Ramirez
    • Aakash Bellam Reddy
    • Roxelyn Regalado-Gabriel
    • Penelope Reynoso
    • Lilah Richman
    • Ella Florence Pham Rosenblatt
    • Sophia Anjali Roy-Burman
    • Aliah Belarde Rubin
    • Lindsay Rose Ryan
    • Amina Mohamed Sadek
    • Aushleen Kaur Sahota
    • Tamara Casillas Sanchez
    • Vanessa Sánchez Asuncion
    • Lily Anai Sanchez Lopez
    • Ariya Savla
    • Cornelia Julia Scott
    • Merut Shankar
    • Minju Shim
    • Sophia Shin
    • Anya Sikri
    • Kasturi Sinha
    • Edwin Taehoon Song
    • Kristin Song
    • Madhuri Suresh
    • Aileen Tam Ta
    • Erin Seoyeon Tak
    • Pei Yi Tam Peng
    • Sophia Amelie Songco Tang
    • Nancy Hong Thi
    • Megha Thomas
    • Carolyn Tran
    • Amanda Zi Tran
    • Carina Tu
    • Kimberly Melissa Vaca
    • Aryana Adelina Valle Portela
    • Yedid Angelica Vargas Jr.
    • Melany Guadalupe Velazquez Tinoco
    • Ariane Marise Vidal
    • Samantha Viera Najar
    • Jonathan Wang
    • Maggie Watts
    • Naomi Wong
    • Nevaeh Janae Woods
    • Joana Manalo Yabes
    • Emily Yang
    • Calvin Yang
    • Kaylee Yang
    • Ethan Jiajun Ye
    • Anna Rose Yrungaray
    • Hanbin Yu
    • Chelsea Yuen
    • Karis Yun
    • Serena Zhang
    • Emma Yizhen Zhang
    • Charlotte Zhang
    • Amy Zhang