Sweta is an undergraduate from Cleveland, Ohio. Sweta’s involvements on campus include Emory Data Science club, Uplifting Marginalized Mothers & Individuals (UMMI Emory), serving as an ambassador/student advisor for the Quantitative Theory and Methods & the Center for Human Health departments, and as a resident advisor for a first-year residence hall. Sweta is passionate about data analysis and the use of epidemiology to study and improve the outcomes of historically underserved communities. Sweta is assisting with a scoping and systematic review of health disparities in drug-resistant bacterial infections.

Addison is leading a scoping and systematic review of health disparities in drug-resistant bacterial infections.

Cameron is a second-year MPH student. Cameron's focus area is the intersection of infectious disease and the environment, for which he uses genetic and molecular epidemiological approaches to explore further. Cameron is the Environmental Health Department student representative and Co-President of the Student Outbreak Response Team. Cameron will be comparing ESBL-producing bacteria from patients and Atlanta wastewater for his capstone project.

Shayna is comparing methods for characterizing Staphylococcus aureus in wastewater. Her goal is to determine if wastewater sampling can provide insight into the diversity of S. aureus that colonize and infect people in Atlanta.

Natalie is conducting metagenomic analyses on chicken fecal samples from Maputo, Mozambique to identify risk factors for antibiotic resistant bacteria and compare microbiome diversity & composition between chickens and children in this community. She is primarily interested in the eco-epidemiology of zoonotic spillover at the wildlife/livestock/human interface.

Madison is benchmarking strain tracking tools to assess strain sharing between chickens and young children in peri-urban Lima, Peru.  She is especially interested in the population-level transmission dynamics of microbes and ecological drivers of zoonotic spillover events. She also enjoys hiking, swimming, and playing fetch with her dog.