Public health students recognized at 2026 Hayes Research Forum
Scholars honored for research excellence
Sharefa Duhaney shares her research with Dean Paula Song at the Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum on March 6, 2026.
Graduate students from the College of Public Health were recognized for their outstanding research at the 2026 Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum, held March 6 at the Ohio Union.
The Hayes Forum showcases innovative research from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across disciplines, fostering collaboration and the exchange of ideas among researchers, faculty and the broader community. This year, several public health students were honored for their contributions:
- Andrew Gothard, a biostatistics PhD student, earned third place in the math and physical sciences poster session for his poster “Continuous Logic Forest: An Ensemble Machine Learning Technique for Discovering Logical Combinations of Binary Markers.”
- Sharefa Duhaney, a health behavior and health promotion PhD student, was recognized with an honorable mention in the biological and health sciences category for her poster “Toward a Trauma-Informed, Brain-Injury-Aware System: Staff Exposure, Preparedness, and System-Level Implications.”
- Epidemiology student Elizabeth Ghias received an honorable mention in the health sciences category for her oral presentation “Residential Mobility Patterns of New Jersey Colorectal Cancer Cases Diagnosed 2014–2019: Implications for Characterizing Environmental Exposures.”
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