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Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA

Co-Director, BEGIN Lab

Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD

Co-Director, BEGIN Lab

Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases

Teniola Egbe, MPH, MBE

Senior Project Manager

Elizabeth Bair, MS

Senior Statistical Analyst

Jenny Emery

Executive Assistant

Camellia Bùi

Clinical Research Assistant

Charlotte Babbin

Clinical Research Coordinator

Divya Pandey, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ying Zhang, MSPH

Research Trainee


Alumni


Aleksandra Golos

Research Assistant

Noora Marcus, MA

Senior Project Manager

Megan Rabin, MPH

Research Coordinator

Sarah Penuela-Wermers

Graduate Assistant

Laura Schmucker, MPH

Senior Project Manager

Rhoda Kaddu

Research Assistant

Nicole Ellingson, MPH

Clinical Research Coordinator

Xinyi (Bella) Min

Student Research Assistant

Averi Chakrabarti, PhD

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Anisha Rajaratnam, MPH

Program Coordinator

Medrine Kihanga

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