Public Health Research Day

Welcome to SPH-B Public Health Research Day 2025! This event is dedicated to the exceptional research collaborations among students across our degree programs in partnership with our outstanding faculty.

Overview

School of Public Health faculty judges will score student research presentations and identify the top presentation in each of the following categories:

Bachelors Student
Masters Student
Doctoral Student

Presentations will be reviewed by our faculty judges at the event on Friday, April 11th, 2025. An awards ceremony will be held immediately following the poster presentations, the poster with the highest score will be pronounced the winner. There will be three winners in the following categories: Bachelors, Masters, Doctoral.

Congrats 2025 Student Winners

Name: Aidan Simons
Department: Applied Health Sciences
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Public Health, Community Health
Mentor: Luis Chaves
Title: "Density-dependence and different dimensions of changing weather shape adult abundance patterns of common mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bloomington, IN, USA"

Name: Emory Hoelscher-Hull
Department: Environmental and Occupational Health
Degree: Master's Degree
Mentor: Drew Capone
Title: "Mosquito-Proof housing: The impact of housing characteristics on mosquito bite rates"

Name: Maria Klein
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Degree: Ph.D Epidemiology
Mentor: Molly Rosenberg
Title: "Metabolic syndrome and memory decline: longitudinal analyses from an aging cohort in a rural, low-income region of South Africa"

Keynote Lecture: Dr. Leslie Hulvershorn

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Dr. Leslie Hulvershorn is a child and adolescent and addiction psychiatrist, and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Hulvershorn is an active researcher and clinician and has authored numerous publications on various topics in child psychiatry. She has received multiple grants to study the neurobiological basis of addiction risk in children. She has directed Indiana’s Department of Child Services Psychotropic Medication Consultation Program and serves as the consulting Medical Director for Indiana’s Division of Mental Health and Addiction