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\n \"Principal
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Principal Investigator<\/strong>
Marcia I. Pescador Jimenez, PhD, MS, MA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \"Postdoctoral
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Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong>
Tara Jenson, PhD, MPH<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \"Postdoctoral
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Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong>
Jeroen van Baar, PhD<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \"PhD
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PhD Student<\/strong>
Leidys Guti\u00e9rrez-Mart\u00ednez, MD, MSc<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \"Research
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Research Fellow<\/strong>
Allison James, MS<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \"Postdoctoral
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Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong>
Yingyan Wu, PhD, MS<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \"Graduate
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Graduate Research Assistant<\/strong>
Eliza Rodi, BA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \"Graduate
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Research Project Coordinator<\/strong>
Rhea Dcunha, MPH<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n \"Jenna\"\n
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Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong>
Jenna Tipaldo, PhD<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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FORMER LAB MEMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marco Chivardi<\/strong>, MPH. Coordinator in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cameron Reimer<\/strong>, MS. PhD student at Cornell University Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yifan Wang<\/strong>, BA. MPH student in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Erika Meza<\/strong>, PhD, MS. Assistant Professor in the Kinesiology and Public Health Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ana Lilia Lozada Tequeanes<\/strong>, PhD, MS, MS. Researcher at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hodan Mohamed<\/strong>, MPH. Program Coordinator for the Global Health Emerging Scholars program at Yale School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anna Staddon<\/strong>, MPH. Medical Student at Florida State University College of Medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Emma Gause<\/strong>, MS, MA. Research Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nabetse Blas Miranda<\/strong>, PhD, MPH. Researcher at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico; Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Te\u00f3fila Enr\u00edquez<\/strong>, MPH. Professor and Researcher at University of the South Sierra, Mexico. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Juan Antonio Miranda Zu\u00f1iga<\/strong>, BSc. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principal InvestigatorMarcia I. Pescador Jimenez, PhD, MS, MA Postdoctoral FellowTara Jenson, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral FellowJeroen van Baar, PhD PhD StudentLeidys Guti\u00e9rrez-Mart\u00ednez, MD, MSc Research FellowAllison James, MS Postdoctoral FellowYingyan Wu, PhD, MS Graduate Research AssistantEliza Rodi, BA Research Project CoordinatorRhea Dcunha, MPH Postdoctoral FellowJenna Tipaldo, PhD FORMER LAB MEMBERS Marco Chivardi, MPH. Coordinator in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24999,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"profiles.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}