Research Training
Students representing several disciplines and levels of training have participated in project Migrante. Their work has included, but is not limited to, translating surveys, data analysis, writing manuscripts, presenting findings at national conferences and providing feedback on others' work during our bi-weekly meetings.
Students representing several disciplines and levels of training have participated in project Migrante. Their work has included, but is not limited to, translating surveys, data analysis, writing manuscripts, presenting findings at national conferences and providing feedback on others' work during our bi-weekly meetings.
Past Fellows and Staff
Leah Bakely
Leah was Dr. Ana Martinez-Donate's research coordinator at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health. Leah has a Bachelor of Arts in History and Spanish from Wesleyan University and a Master's in Public Health in Community Health and Prevention from Drexel University. She was a research assistant and then project manager for the Migrante Project, and was involved in many aspects of the project, including survey design, data monitoring, and data analysis. Catalina Correa
Catalina has a PhD in Community Health and Prevention at Drexel University. A psychologist by training, Catalina has over 10 years of experience working in human rights with historically marginalized communities in Latin America and Colombia. At the time of her participation in the Migrante Project, her interests lay at the intersection between violence, migration and gender in the Global South, particularly in humanitarian crisis settings. Catalina was a project manager for the Migrante Project. |
Alice Choe
Alice has a Masters of Public Health from Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health in Community Health and Prevention. She was also a Dornsife Public Health Fellow and worked on Dr. Martinez-Donate’s research team. At the time of her participation in the Migrante Project, Alice was interested in using community-engaged research techniques to eliminate health disparities in low-income, immigrant populations in US cities. |
Ifna Ejebe
At the time of her participation in the the Migrante Project, Ifna was an MD/PhD student in the Department of Population Health Sciences. Her research interests included chronic disease self-management in adults with chronic conditions; racial/ethnic, income, and legal status differences in access to, use of, and quality of care for adults with chronic conditions. She was particulary interested in receipt of preventative services in migrating adults on the US-Mexico border. Her manuscript, "Seasonal influenza vaccination among Mexican migrants traveling through the Mexico-U.S. border region", was forthcoming in Preventive Medicine. Ifna is now a clincial instructor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. |
Natalie Guerrero
At the time of her participation in the the Migrante Project, Natalie was an MD/PhD candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin. She graduated with a BA in Neuroscience from Pomona College in 2011. She was in her first year of the Population Health Sciences PhD program. Her research interests included health disparities among disadvantaged populations and community-based health intervention programs. During her time working on the project, she collaborated with Migrante members to assess Mexican women migrants' use of preventative cancer health care services while in the U.S. She is currently a resident in the Department of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine. |
Kayla Pfeiffer-Mundt
At the time of her participation in the the Migrante Project, Kayla was a second-year undergraduate pursuing a degree in International Studies and Biology, and a certificate in Global Health. She was especially interested in global healthcare policy and underrepresented populations. She advocated for health as a human right as a member of Partners In Health Engage Madison. Kayla contributed to Project Migrante by translating survey questionnaire forms from Spanish to English. Since working with us, Kayla graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with her Masters of Science in Public Health. She is currently a medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |