Leadership
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Jessica Barrington-Trimis, PhD, MS, MA
Director of the Real-world Evaluation in Behavioral Epidemiology Lab
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
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Alyssa Harlow, PhD, MPH
Director of the Real-world Evaluation in Behavioral Epidemiology Lab
Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
afharlow@usc.edu
Core Faculty
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Junhan Cho, PhD
Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
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Dayoung Bae, PhD
Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
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Adam Leventhal, PhD
Director of the Institute for Addiction Science
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Caroline North, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Staff
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Gina Klemm, MPH
Project Manager
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Erika Azpeitia, MPH, CHES
Project Administrator
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Gabi Lozoya, MPH
Project Specialist
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Charlotte Duran, BA
Project Assistant
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Anna Schenkel, BS
Data Collector
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Melissa Wong, MS
Statistician I
Graduate Students
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Reid Whaley, MPH
Doctoral Student, Health Behavior Research
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Nikki Jafarzadeh, BA
Doctoral Student, Health Behavior Research
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Claire Walsh, MA
Doctoral Student, Health Behavior Research
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Sara Shoar, MPH
Doctoral Student, Health Behavior Research
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Tomás Arriaza Saez
Doctoral Student, Health Behavior Research
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Saida Coreas, BS
Affiliated Doctoral Student, Health Behavior Research
scoreas@usc.edu -

Alexandra Mills, BA
Affiliated Doctoral Student, Health Behavior Research
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Tahsin Rahman, MPH
Affiliated Doctoral Student, Health Behavior Research
tahsinra@usc.edu
Student Research Assistants
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Braden Dawson
Legal Studies
Class of 2028 -

Charlize (Char) Delos Santos
Global Health
Class of 2026 -

Lauren Jester
Undergraduate Fellow in Addiction Science
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Class of 2026 -

Serena Lee
Politics, Philosophy and Economics
Class of 2027 -

Ivan Tran
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Class of 2027
Alumni
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Abigail Adjei, MD, PhD
Physician Epidemiologist
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Mariel Bello, PhD
Clinical Psychology Resident,
Brown University -

Jessica Braymiller, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor,
University at Buffalo -

Margaret Canady, BA
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, University of California Irvine
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Hana Choi
Prospective Occupational Therapy Student
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Sam Cwalina, PhD
Epidemiologist, FDA Center for Tobacco Products
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Olivia Efird
Program Coordinator, Dress for Success Seattle
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Afton Kechter, PhD
Clinical Trial Designer, Eli Lilly and Company
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Annemarie Kelleghan, PhD
Psychologist, Children’s Hospital of Orange County / Rady Children’s Health
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Devaki Patel, MPH
Health Behavior Research Doctoral Student, University of Southern California
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Natalia Peraza, BS
Brain and Cognitive Science Doctoral Student, University of Southern California
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Kelsey Simpson, PhD
Qualitative Research Consultant, Johns Hopkins
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Gisselle Soto Rivas, BA
Medical Student, University of California San Diego
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Gisselle Quiroz, BA
Master of Science in Counseling Student, California State University San Bernardino
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Ariana Coba Clementel
Medical Student, New York University
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Thordar Han
Clinical Research Coordinator, Johns Hopkins
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Maxwell Hartshorn
Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator, Stanford
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Trisha Iyer
Prospective Medical Student
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Lilia Margaryan
Prospective Medical Student
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Paul Martines
Project Assistant, University of Southern California
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Rohan Minocha
Medical Student, Harvard University
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Mark Tello-Rincon
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Elaine Wang
Prospective Medical Student
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Non-USC Faculty
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