From Malaria to HIV and Beyond: Dispatches from the Training in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology (TIDE) T32

The T32 Training in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (TIDE) Program was designed to produce a new generation of leaders in Infectious Disease epidemiology. The following will present their work in Bioinformatics 1131.

Deana Agil, MS – “Rural Residence and Emergency Department Use Among People with HIV in North Carolina.”  Deana is a doctoral student in epidemiology interested in HIV, access to care, and healthcare disparities.

Caitlin Cassidy, MS – “False-positive malaria rapid diagnostic tests among young children in Uganda.” Caitlin is a T32 trainee in infectious disease epidemiology. Her research primarily focuses on malaria and antimicrobial stewardship in Uganda.

Annika Gunderson, MSc – “Impact of Flooding on Pediatric Malaria Hospitalization in Rural Western Uganda.” Annika is a 4^th year PhD student in the Epidemiology Department and a trainee in infectious diseases. Her research focuses on malaria transmission in Latin America as well as understanding determinants of delayed care seeking and severe malaria in Uganda.

Karen Diepstra, PhD – “List randomization for prevalence estimation of sensitive behavioral data among women with HIV of reproductive age in Lilongwe, Malawi.” Karen Diepstra is a postdoctoral research associate in the Epidemiology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her PhD in Epidemiology at UNC-CH. Her dissertation work focused on the effect of drug-drug interactions on contraceptive efficacy among women with HIV using hormonal contraception. Her research interests include HIV, women’s health and reproductive epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and epidemiologic methods.

Danielle Wiener, MPH – “Evaluation of the effect of sickle cell trait on P. falciparum infections.” Danielle is currently a 4th year epidemiology PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Public Health, specializing in infectious disease. Her primary research areas are evaluation of vector-borne disease risk factor analysis, surveillance efforts, intervention analysis, and laboratory test accuracy assessment. She conducts research in conjunction with the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL) at UNC and the Malaria Collaboratory at Duke University.