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11th Annual Stanford Global Health Research Convening
Research Convening

Event Schedule

Theme: One Health
January 29, 2025
Arrillaga Alumni Center
Stanford University

Research Convening Event Schedule 2025

11th Annual Stanford Global Health Research Convening

Theme: One Health

January 29, 2025 | McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center

8:00-9:00 AM | Registration and Coffee (no breakfast provided)

9:00—9:15 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • Michele Barry, MD
    Senior Associate Dean of Global Health, Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of  Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH)
  • Lloyd B. Minor, MD
    The Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the School of Medicine, Vice President for Medical Affairs, Stanford University, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Professor of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering, by courtesy

9:15 – 10:10 AM | Opening Keynote and Q&A: Colliding Crises — The power of the One Health approach for addressing global health challenges

Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD | Vice Provost – Grand Challenges at the University of California, Davis

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD, is the Vice Provost – Grand Challenges at the University of California, Davis. She is Chancellor’s Leadership Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Disease Ecology and founded the One Health Institute in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where she focused on global health problem-solving, especially for emerging infectious disease and conservation challenges. Dr. Mazet is active in international One Health education, service, and research programs, most notably in relation to disease transmission among wildlife, domestic animals, and people and the ecological drivers of novel disease dynamics.

10:10 - 10:25 am  | Lightning Round Presentations (Pink Group)

Presenters will each have 60 seconds to give a snapshot of their global health research.

10:25 - 11:00 AM | Selected Oral Presentations (Red Group)

Daniel Kim, PhD

Escherichia coli strain sharing across humans, animals, and the environment in urban Kenya

 

Chris Bacon, PhD and William Sundstrom, PhD

Diversified farming, agroecology, and one health: Analyzing strategies for smallholders’ food and water security in multi-hazard environments

 

 

Oral Presenter Bios (Red Group)

Daniel Kim, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniel Kim, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniel Kim is a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. He earned his BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea University and his MS and PhD from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), where he studied microbial nitrogen cycles. After completing his PhD, he joined Professor Amy Pickering’s research group to broaden his expertise in the public health sector. His current research focuses on understanding bacterial strain-sharing patterns and the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in low-income communities, primarily through bioinformatics analyses, to inform effective intervention strategies.

 

Chris Bacon, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair

Chris Bacon, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair

Christopher M. Bacon is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University. He is an environmental social scientist with expertise in sustainable food systems, farmer livelihoods, agroecology, participatory action research, food security, climate adaptation, and transdisciplinary collaboration. Bacon has established a long-term research agenda with cooperatives, farmers, and community-based innovators for food systems change in Central America and California. He serves on the Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems editorial board, co-founded SCU’s Environmental Justice and the Common Good Initiative, and co-chairs the AJCU Laudato Si’ Commission.

William Sundstrom, PhD

 Professor of Economics

William Sundstrom, PhD

 Professor of Economics

William A. Sundstrom is Stephen and Patricia Schott Professor of Economics in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. His research interests include the evolution of racial disparities in employment and earnings in the United States, as well as contemporary policy issues relating to housing, criminal justice, and sustainable agriculture.

11:00 - 11:25 AM | Networking break and Poster Viewing  

11:25 AM - 11:40 AM | Lightning Round Presentations (Green Group)

11:40 AM - 12:15 PM | Oral Presentations (Blue Group)

Esther Jung, MPH

A national active case-finding program for tuberculosis in prisons, Peru, 2024

 

Erin Mordecai, PhD

Massive global impacts of climate change on dengue transmission

Oral Presenter Bios (Blue Group)

Esther Jung, MPH

Research Program Coordinator

Esther Jung, MPH

Research Program Coordinator

Esther Jung is the Research Program Coordinator for the Andrews Lab at Stanford University, supporting NIH and Gates-funded studies on diagnostic, control, and treatment strategies for tuberculosis and typhoid in resource-constrained settings. A recent graduate of UC Berkeley’s 4+1 MPH program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Esther has co-authored studies published in Nature on childhood growth faltering in low-resource countries. Currently, she coordinates projects with international teams — managing data sharing and analysis, developing enrollment dashboards, and contributing to authorship for manuscripts on tuberculosis in carceral settings, typhoid, and other interventions aimed at improving health outcomes and informing global health policy.

Erin Mordecai, PhD

Associate Professor

Erin Mordecai, PhD

Associate Professor

Dr. Mordecai is an associate professor in Biology, a faculty affiliate of CIGH, the King Center, HAI, and Bio-X, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment. She co-directs the Disease Ecology in a Changing World (DECO) program in SDSS. Her research focuses on the ecology of infectious diseases. She is interested in how climate, species interactions, and global change drive infectious disease dynamics in humans and natural ecosystems. This research combines mathematical modeling and empirical work.

12:15 PM - 12:25 PM | Dance Performance

12:25 PM - 1:40 PM | Lunch Break and Networking

1:40 - 1:55 PM | Lightning Round Presentations (Orange Group)

1:55 - 2:30 PM | Oral Presentations (Yellow Group)

Ruth Gibson, PhD

The impact of aid sanctions on maternal and child mortality, 1990-2019: A panel analysis 

Gracie Hornsby, MS, PhD Candidate

Quantifying the effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) education and infrastructure operation and maintenance on students’ toilet use and handwashing in Indian primary schools

Oral Presenter Bios (Yellow Group)

Ruth Gibson, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ruth Gibson, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Ruth Gibson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Policy and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. Ruth’s academic focus is global health and strategic studies. She works with the Executive Branch of the Pentagon on planning for global health considerations in escalation scenarios between China and Taiwan. She also works with the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights on issues related to geopolitical coercion and population health. She welcomes students to contact her about research opportunities. Ruth spent a decade living abroad doing global health work in eight countries on five continents.

Gracie Hornsby, MS, PhD Candidate

PhD Candidate

Gracie Hornsby, MS, PhD Candidate

PhD Candidate

Gracie Hornsby is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Her research focuses on the intersection of infrastructure maintenance and education for promoting healthy water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) behavior. Her dissertation research has focused on behavior change among primary-school students in northern India; however, her research interests extend more broadly to WASH in institutions and novel arrangements for sustainable operations and maintenance. Gracie is advised by Jenna Davis and Gary Darmstadt serves as co-primary investigator on this work.

2:30 - 2:35 PM – Closing remarks

Michele Barry, MD

2:35 - 3:00 PM – Poster Viewing and Networking