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Meet the Team

To honor our longstanding friends and collaborators in Ghana, our lab logo incorporates the Adinkra symbol Nyansapo, the wisdom knot, which represents intelligence, ingenuity, and patience. Does that sound like you?

 

We welcome students and collaborators at all career stages, particularly if you are a strong writer and have experience with geospatial technology, surveys, quantitative or qualitative methods, or data science. Many students complete thesis, capstone, or fellowship requirements through their work with the lab. Contact Dr. Stoler to learn more. 

Justin Stoler, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor, Geography & Sustainable Development, and Public Health Sciences

I am a former management consultant from New York (and before that, a business and psychology double-major) who went back to school to study GIS and global health. I now research and teach health disparities using social, environmental, and spatial epidemiological methods. I have more than a decade of experience studying drinking water and infectious diseases in Ghana, and I co-lead the HWISE-RCN, an interdisciplinary community of water insecurity researchers. Social and environmental justice are front-and-center throughout my research and teaching. 

Like everyone else, I like cooking, gardening, and adventure travel. My two dogs are smarter than your honors student, and I like my music loud. 

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Chioma Amuzie

Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine, UM '25

My research focuses on the effects of household water security on children and evaluates potential interventions that could improve pediatric health outcomes. I love reading, yoga, hiking, traveling, and watching my Golden State Warriors and San Francisco 49ers. 

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Megan Locke

B.B.A. Finance, UM '25

I am interested in exploring the intersection of finance and global health. For the lab, I support a project about university students' trust in science and propensity for conspiracy thinking and misinformation. In my free time, I enjoy the beach, cooking, shopping, and rooting for my Philly teams.

Previous Team Members

Our students have continued on to all sorts of careers and graduate degrees. Many of them co-authored peer-reviewed research as a student, which is a testament to their education and passion for science. Will you be next?

Gladiz Velez, UM '23, Ecosystem Science and Policy

Rajvi Shah, UM '23, Geography and Sustainable Development

Giulia Torrico, UM '22, Global Health Studies

Natalia Tohmé, UM '22, MS in Climate and Health

  • The association of environmental contextual variables with psychosocial components of water insecurity

Erica Goldfinger, UM '22, Ecosystem Science and Policy, Geography and Sustainable Development

Eliza Stuart, UM '22, Public Health, Geography and Sustainable Development

Andrea (Sullivan) Lemaitre, UM '22, PhD in Environmental Science and Policy

Melissa Sidote, UM '20, Public Health, Psychology; MPH '21

Christina Paraggio, UM '21, Microbiology & Immunology, Spanish

Nicholas Amoako, University of Ghana '19, PhD Molecular Cell Biology of Infectious Diseases

Jaclyn Verity, UM '17, Health Geographics, Religious Studies

Kurt Wyatt, UM '17, Geography, Sustainability, GIS

Laura Zebib, UM '15, Biology, Public Health, Geospatial Technology

Katie Ross-Driscoll, UM '15, Public Health

Kiana Winslow, UM '15, Geography, Religion & Health Care

Alessandria San Roman, UM '15, Political Science, Business Law, Geography

Rupert Delimini, University of Ghana '14, MPhil Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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