Jade Benjamin-Chung, PhD MPH, is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. Her group conducts research to identify interventions to control, eliminate, or eradicate environmentally-transmitted infectious diseases. They use a variety of epidemiologic, computational, and statistical methods, including causal inference and machine learning methods and focus on vulnerable populations from low-resource settings, both domestically and internationally.

Minghao Qiu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health and School of Sustainability at Stanford University. He will join Stony Brook University, as an assistant professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and Program in Public Health, in the fall 2024. He is interested in understanding the impacts of air pollution and climate change on human health and society, and policies that could address these environmental challenges. He received his Ph.D. degree from MIT, and bachelor’s degree from Peking University.

Michelle Khan is a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist with training in Reproductive Infectious Diseases. She works as a generalist seeing patients for routine Ob/Gyn care, pregnancy and delivery, and in subspecialty clinics focused on HPV-related diseases of the anogenital tract. She is active in professional societies teaching national and international courses in colposcopy and high-resolution anoscopy. She is interested in cervical cancer prevention in the US and abroad.

Bethel Bayrau is a life science research professional conducting arboviral research at the LaBeaud Lab in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine. Originally from Ethiopia, she earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Human Biology from Stanford University in 2022, specializing in Infectious Disease in Maternal and Child Health. Bethel is an aspiring physician-scientist interested in infectious disease research in Africa, addressing health inequities and preventive medicine.

Christine is a PhD candidate at Stanford University studying the relationship between water, climate, and economic development. Christine uses a combination of data science and field interviews to understand how infrastructure investments increase climate resiliency and transform household livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Christine also collaborates with climate tech startups to understand the causal factors underpinning successful entrepreneurship ecosystems. Previously, Christine worked at The World Bank in Tajikistan, as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and as an investment associate at Burnt Island Ventures.

Kaitlyn is a PhD candidate in Biology that studies environmental change and infectious disease. She is primarily interested in ecological alterations caused by human activities that impact environmentally transmitted diseases and simultaneously shape the health of humans and the environment. Her thesis work focuses on the role of predatory-prey dynamics and pollution on schistosomiasis transmission. She works closely with local partners in Senegal and Madagascar to monitor recent species introductions, better understand the future of disease transmission, and identify sustainable solutions for both people and the environment.