Dr. Armstrong-Hough is a medical sociologist and epidemiologist of respiratory disease. Her global health research examines the interfaces among tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and non-communicable diseases. Combining training in epidemiology and sociology, she develops and evaluates interventions to increase early case-finding, status awareness, and linkage to care for TB and HIV in high-burden settings like Uganda and South Africa. Her US-based research examines disparities in survival of respiratory failure and seeks to develop interventions to ensure that all patients with respiratory failure receive evidence-based care.

Luz Mercado is the program manager working on the Promoting Equity via Changes In Practice for Respiratory Failure (PRECIPICE) study. A graduate from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, Luz holds an MPH in Epidemiology with a concentration in Public Health Research Methods. Luz is interested in addressing racial/ethnic health disparities, food security, and immigrant health through mixed-methods, community-based participatory research and intervention design. 

Anushka is a multidisciplinary researcher passionate about global health equity.  A second-year MPH student in Social and Behavioral Sciences, she intends to draw on her previous training in anthropology and biomedical sciences to bridge the gap between social and medical research, putting into practice the translation of medical science into equitable cost-effective practice in public health. As a PATHE Fellow, Anushka has been working with the AIRE Lab to design an intervention for patients burdened with tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus, and HIV in Uganda. She has been awarded an incentive grant by WHO-Defeat-NCD Partnership (UNITAR) Programme for Implementation Research to Scale-up National NCD and Mental Health-related Responses for Achieving SDG 3.4 to continue this work.

Katie is a 1st year PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology within NYU's School of Global Public Health. She is working as a research assistant in the AIRE Lab on PRECIPICE (Promoting Equity via Change In Practice for Respiratory Failure), which looks to address health disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic patients who survive respiratory failure. Katie comes to research from a clinical background, having worked as a licensed physical therapist, through which she gained an interest in addressing health disparities and equitable access to healthcare.

Kaylee is second-year MPH student on the Global Health track. She is currently working on a PRECIPICE sub-study looking to explore the experiences of family members of Hispanic patients in the ICU during COVID-19. Kaylee hope to work at the intersection of social science, infectious diseases, and health disparities as a social epidemiologist. This discipline will allows her to be part of effective population-based change, while also working at the individual and community level to better understand the experiences of groups most affected by health inequities.  

Allen is a classically-trained biostatistician. He works full-time at GPH as a Biostatistician in the Epidemiology Department. Allen provides statistical consulting for the AIRE Lab in data management, statistical computing, and scientific visualization. He also leads a graduate student-led pilot study on applying the Experience Sampling Method to investigate how activity types on social media are associated with mental well-being. His research interest is driven by his enthusiasm for understanding people’s day-to-day health and self-care decisions and informing behavioral determinants of health. He also researches complexity and networked systems.

Lexi is a student, researcher, writer, and organizer from the Hudson Valley living in Queens. She is currently working towards a Master's in Public Health (MPH) from New York University's School of Global Public Health with a concentration in Global Health. Her main interests include community-based interventions and health and human rights. In the past, Lexi was the Community Engagement Intern at the International Rescue Committee (IRC). She also worked as a Project Assistant with Be (A)Part where she organized events with residents, elected officials, and researchers to help strengthen our collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sherry is a current second-year MS biostatistics student at NYU and joined the AIRE lab as a summer intern in May 2022. During her research experience last summer, she participated in the data analyses of two projects concerning respiratory diseases. One project aimed to examine the racial disparities in the functional outcomes of respiratory failures with the NIH All of Us data while another cohort study targeted modeling the effect of glucose exposure on TB treatment failure. Her research interests include the design and implementation of causal inference and survival analysis, particularly related to Alzheimer’s and pulmonary diseases. 

Naiyue is a second-year graduate student in the MS Biostatistics program at NYU School of Global Public Health. She is a biostatistician in the AIRE Lab. She has supported in creating analytical datasets from raw data and performing statistical analyses on the datasets majorly using R and Stata. Naiyue is involved in the All of Us project on functional status among survivors of respiratory failure, the HIV-TB Stigma Trial, and the TBDM project. Her general research interests are survival analysis and causal inference in public health and social sciences fields. She really enjoy working in a team with so many wonderful colleagues all supporting each other and looks forward to future projects and challenges!

Yiwen is a second year Master student at the NYU School of Global Public Health specializing in Biostatistics. She was involved in NIH All of Us Research Program and TB-DM analysis, mainly responsible for consulting tasks and coding tasks. During her time at NYU, she did several projects including machine learning, spatial analysis and longitudinal studies. Her research interests center around using machine learning methods to inferences and classification tasks in public health issues.

Shirley is a Research Affiliate at GPH and a medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She joined the lab in 2021 and has focused on interventions for reducing disparities in critical care settings with PRECIPICE. Her other research interests include global health, trauma medicine, and quality improvement. In her free time, Shirley loves taking long walks in Manhattan, trying new restaurants, climbing, and binging TV.

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