2018-19 Doctoral Defenses

Meet this year's graduating doctoral students, David Johns, Stephanie Grilo, and Ronna Popkin, who have successfully completed their dissertation defense. Learn about their research and how they have been applying the SMS lens to their work!

David Johns

Graduation Year: 2019
Degree/Concentration: PhD/History
Dissertation: "Good Evidence, Bad Evidence: Science, Ethics, and the Politics of Making and Unmaking Public Health Policies"


Stephanie Grilo

Graduation Year: 2019
Degree/Concentration: PhD/Sociology
Dissertation: “Re-thinking Race Among Adolescents in a Multiracial Generation: An Emerging Research and Public Health Approach to Identity and Health”


Ronna Popkin

Graduation Year: 2019
Degree/Concentration: PhD/Sociology
Dissertation: "Variants of Significance? The Production and Management of Genetic Risk for Breast and Ovarian Cancer in the Era of Multi-Gene Panel Testing.”