Our Team
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Max Aung, PhD, MPH
Max is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. He is also a Harvard University JPB Environmental Health Fellow. His research utilizes biostatistics and data science frameworks to investigate the biological pathways affected by exposure to chLinkedInemical mixtures in the environment. Max is committed to applying his research towards reducing environmental health disparities and pursuing environmental justice. Max earned his PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biostatistics and data science. Max is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar Fellow. He currently co-directs the USC EH MATTERS Program and is an Assistant Director of the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Program.
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Himal Suthar, MS
Himal is a doctoral student at the USC Keck School of Medicine in the Division of Epidemiology. His research goal is to apply machine learning and novel statistical methods to generate knowledge that can inform policies reducing social and environmental barriers facing vulnerable youth. Before his doctoral program, Himal was a Data Scientist with the Children’s Data Network at the USC School of Social Work, where he worked end to end with the research team, contributing to data preparation, analyses, and modeling, as well as interfacing with government and academic research partners to drive interdisciplinary collaborations. Himal has past industry experience in online advertising, consulting, and digital health startups. Himal received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California and his Master’s in Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley
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Dominic Pak
Dominic is a current senior at the University of Southern California, earning his B.S. in Environmental Science and Health and his M.S. in Global Medicine. He has diverse interests in the fields of child and maternal health, environmental justice, and translational epidemiology. He aims to matriculate to medical school with goals to serve the Latinx and queer communities, specifically within South and East Los Angeles, as a physician, researcher, and life-long learner.
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Hongxu Wang, MS
Hongxu is a statistician with expertise in multi omic data integration and modeling. She received her MS in statistics at Iowa State University. Hongxu’s current work focuses on data management, applying biostatistics methods to analyze research data and address research questions.
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Tomás Manea
Tomás Delgado Manea is an undergraduate at the University of Southern California pursuing their B.S./M.S. in Quantitative Biology. As the child of Peruvian and Romanian immigrants, they are dedicated to elucidating public health issues for Latiné and ESL individuals. Their interests lie in exploring the intersection between environmental health and mental health.
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manea@usc.edu
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Sherlock Li, PhD
Sherlock is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine in the Division of Environmental Health. He earned his MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interest is in understanding the environmental risk factors for neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, utilizing omics data to understand biological mechanisms between environmental exposure and disease, and assessing the cost-effectiveness of reducing environmental exposure in vulnerable populations.
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