Six Honored with Dean's Research Council Doctoral Scholarships

From left: Mark Wilson; Joann Lee; Deepali Godha;
Pierre Buekens, dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical
Medicine; Tanika Kelly; Lauren Nagy; and Megan Littrell

Six doctoral students have been honored with the Dean's Research Council Scholarships from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The scholarships are provided each year in recognition of excellence among doctoral applicants. Students requesting admission to the PhD, the ScD, and the DrPH programs are eligible. Applications are made through January.

The current recipients are Mark Wilson, Joann Lee, Deepali Godha, Tanika Kelly, Lauren Nagy, and Megan Littrell.

Mark Wilson, recipient and nominee from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, received his MSPH degree from Tulane in 2005. Since completing his master's work, Wilson has worked as a graduate fellow at LSU's Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

The Department of Health Systems Management nominated Deepali Godha to the award. Godha earned an MBBS degree from the MGM Medical College in India and comes to Tulane to further her training in public health.

Tanika Kelly is the recipient from the Department of Epidemiology. She received her MPH from the Department in 2005 and begins her doctoral work with interests in infectious disease epidemiology and reproductive epidemiology.

Joann Lee earned an MPH in health promotion from San Diego State School of Public Heath in 2004 before applying to the Department of Community Health Sciences at Tulane. Her interests and experiences include work into the social aspects of health, including tobacco-related health research.

Recipient from the Department of International Health and Development, Megan Littrell previously earned a joint MPH/MSW degree from Tulane and has worked on the MEASURE Evaluation projects through the School of Public Health. Her current research interests include measures of youth health and well being.

Lauren Nagy is the recipient and nominee from the Department of Tropical Medicine. Earlier this year, she finished a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin. Previously she participated in a research program at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. During her tenure at Tulane, Ms. Nagy hopes to study parasites in the context of infectious disease.