Mahnum Shahzad, PhD
Mentor: Anita Wagner, PharmD, MPH, DrPH
Mahnum is working on disparities in access to novel therapies for cancer patients under the supervision of Anita Wagner. She graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2015 with a double major in economics and mathematics. As an undergraduate, she worked extensively on projects in the fields of development and public economics as a presidential scholar and a research assistant and augmented that experience by doing field work in her native country, Pakistan. After graduation, she worked as a research assistant to MIT Professor Heidi Williams at the National Bureau of Economic Research with a focus on innovation in the pharmaceutical sector. Her current research interests focus on provider decision making in the context of pharmaceuticals with a particular focus on accelerated approvals and deadoption decisions. 

Li Yi, PhD
Mentor: Peter James, MHS, ScD
Li's research focuses on investigating the impact of the neighborhood built environment and greenness on health behaviors and chronic disease outcomes. His current work intersects the fields of environmental epidemiology, health behavioral research, and bioinformatics by integrating smartphones and wearable devices, Big Data analytics, and geographic information systems into large prospective cohort studies, including Nurses' Health Studies, Growing Up Today Study, Project Viva, and Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors Study. In the division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL), Li works closely with Peter James and members of the Project Viva team on the Beiwe Smartphone Substudy. Li holds an interdisciplinary PhD in Population, Health and Place from the University of Southern California, an MS in Architectural and Urban Conservation from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MSc in Urban Planning from the University College London.