MPH in Epidemiology graduate Monserrat Hinojosa turned a three-million-record study of latent TB and chronic kidney disease, a dengue surveillance protocol in Lima, and a program evaluation across five schools in Cambodia into a practice of reading data for the people it leaves out.
Human germline gene editing remains highly contested, yet start-ups continue to emerge with the goal of creating gene-edited children. In this presentation, I argue that these founders engage in technomoral entrepreneurship: a strategy of authorization based on persuasion, through which entrepreneurs seek to become legitimate actors in the governance of technological futures.
Grad Student Tiffany Bystra presented a poster, "Affective Immortality, Circumventing Grief: Ethical Concerns Related to Technological Resurrections in Cancer Care," at the 2026 Association of Oncology Social Work conference in Portland, OR. The poster brought into conversation how patient-facing technologies interface with professional roles and responsibilities, legacy planning practices, grief work and traditions, as well as the ethical implications for protecting the dignity of deceased persons.
Griffin Baillargeon finishes his MS in Biostatistics and Data Science at UTMB with a capstone on incorporating external control data in clinical trials under Dr. Jang's mentorship, a poster award at the Annual Forum on Aging, and a data analyst role at UTMB Correctional Managed Care.
UTMB doctoral student Zhiwei Hu has been named a Jeane B. Kempner Scholar for 2026-27. The award funds a year of dissertation research on how the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit relates to depression recognition, advance care planning, and hospice use among older adults with dementia.
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