Doctoral Candidate Brandi Smith successfully defended her dissertation, “Health Disparities, Environmental Toxicants and Midlife Women’s Health Outcomes” on June 25th and will graduate August 2021.
Program Area: Health and Medical Informatics
Research: My research focuses on racial differences in environmental toxicant exposure and how this effects adverse health outcomes in menopausal women. Additionally I am interested in optimizing computational methods in phthalate mixture analysis.
First Year Informatics PhD Students Present on AI and Gamification within Heritage Education
“From Past to Present: A Study of AI-driven Gamification in Heritage Education,” co-authored by first year Informatics PhD students Sepehr Vaez Afshar and Sarvin Eshaghi