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2012 GHP Thesis Titles & Abstracts

Class of 2012


Joseph Anaya, Chemistry:

Design, Synthesis, and Biological Characterization of Novel Nucleoside Analogs Targeting Dengue Virus and Their Serendipitous Activity Against HCV (Publication on hold pending patent filing)

Monica Banerjee, Molecular Biology:

» Building a Mechanistic Model for CqsA Regulation in Vibrio cholerae


Daniel Barson, Molecular Biology:

» Curing the Brain: Clinical Neuroscience in the 21st Century


Hilary Bartlett, Woodrow Wilson School:

» Patents and Patients: The Impact of TRIPS on the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access to Medicines in India


Jillian Berardini, Woodrow Wilson School:

» Choosing Well: A Behavioral Economics Analysis of Health Insurance Exchanges


Christine Blauvelt, Anthropology:

» Economies of Survival: When Global AIDS Interventions Meet Local Communities in Kenya


Lauren Brachman, Sociology:

» “FYI, I’M IVF.” Making Meaning in the In Vitro Fertilization Clinic


Flavia Brancusi, Molecular Biology:

» Microbiologic and Immunologic Assessment of Tuberculous Meningitis


Bianca Cabrera, Sociology:

» Citizenship and Assimilation: The Healthy Immigrant Effect in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York


Christopher Cheung, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology:

» Interactions Between Helminth Infection and Protein Malnutrition in the Mortality of a Wild Mammal


Rebecca Crawford, Politics:

» Entrenched Adversity: The Determinants of Maternal and Child Health in Afghanistan and Pakistan


Allison Daminger, Anthropology:

» Known, Un‐known: An Ethnography of AIDS Care and Treatment Adherence in Guatemala


Annette Dekker, Woodrow Wilson School:

» “What is Killing Me Most” - Chronic Pain and the Need for Palliative Care in a Rural Community in the Eastern Cape of South Africa


Cristina Flores Monckeberg, Sociology:

» Urban Desserts: A Geo-analysis of Neighborhood Food Store Accessibility and Latino Childhood Obesity


Courtney Gallagher, Molecular Biology:

» Full Inhibition of the IFN-Mediated Immune Response by E1B 55-kDa Requires the Putative C-terminal Transcriptional Repression Domain


Mona Gossmann, Psychology:

» Schizophrenia and Sleep Disturbances in the Prodrome


Myra Gupta, Anthropology:

» “Aim High…Fly-Fight-Win”: The American Military's Use of Amphetamines for the Enhancement of the Soldier


Kaitlin Henderson, Molecular Biology:

» The Relationship between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Sleep Disorders: Medical Science and Global Implications


Catalina Hwang, Molecular Biology:

» The Involvement of the Glucocorticoid Receptor in Human Cytomegalovirus Infection


Kulani Jalata, Anthropology:

» How the Tortured Body Speaks: The Oromo People in the Narratives of Ex-Political Prisoners


Sophia Jih, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology:

» Modeling the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic


Andrew Lai, Economics:

» The Effects of Primary Payer Status on the Quality of Health Care


Zoe Li, Moleculary Biology:

» Characterizing Transcriptional Control of Gametocytogenesis in Plasmodium falciparum by an ApiAP2 Transcription Factor


Albert Liao, Molecular Biology:

» Investigation into the Proteasome-Inhibition Resistance Mechanism in Quiescent Fibroblasts


Rosaline Ma, Molecular Biology:

» Characterization of the dod-18 Longevity Mutant in Caenorhabditis elegans


Megan Orlando, Ecology and Evolutionay Biology:

» Social and Structural Determinants of Antibiotic Consumption in the United States


Caroline Pinke, Anthropology:

» An Ethnography of Care: Reclaiming Dignity for Boston’s Chronically Homeless


Nisha Rao, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology:

» Simplifying Surveillance Efforts: Modeling Causes of Heterogeneity in Dengue Fever Risk


Nilan Schnure, Molecular Biology:

» Prevention and Control of Human Papillomavirus Infection and Its Disease Sequelae


Nazli Senyuva, Economics:

» Happily Never After? An Economical Study On How Male Partners and Relationship Dynamics Influence Women’s Use of Emergency Contraception


Ailea Stites, Comparative Literature:

» DO NO HARM: The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Twientieth Century African-American Literature


Shivani Sud, Molecular Biology:

» Sickle Cell Heterozygosity Conferred Protection Against Severe Plasmodium falciparum Infection: An Investigation of the Oxidative Stress Hypothesis


Amy Sweeny, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology:

» A Delicate Balance: Fitness Trade-Offs and Immunological Stress After Helminth Removal in a Wild Peromyscus Population


Ariel Trilling, History:

» Liberation or Limitation? Feminism, Medicine, and the Debate Over the Safety of Oral Contraceptives 1967-1970


Camila Vega, Comparative Literature:

» NDM-1 and Antibiotic Resistance in the Media: Public and Government Responses to Outbreak Situations


Sojung Yi, Anthropology:

» Uncharted: Territorialization of Health Care and the Travails of the Urban Poor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Nana Young, Sociology:

» “Once Mad, Always Mad”: A Qualitative Study of the Socio-Cultural Sources of Mental Illness Stigma in Ghana