2024-2025

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024–2025 Calderone Junior Faculty Awards, which support junior faculty development. The award honors Frank A. Calderone’s career and commitment to public health and is supported by an endowment from the Calderone family. Awardees are chosen based on the scientific merit of their research and its significance for public health, as well as the impact of this award on their future careers.

  • Sorcha Brophy, PhD

    • Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
    • “Workforce Solutions for the Healthcare Safety Net”

  • Melissa DuPont-Reyes, PhD, MPH

    • Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences and Epidemiology
    • “Leveraging Latinx Counterfactual Contexts, Mixed-Methods, and Relevant Social Science Theory to Disentangle the Bidirectional Relationship between Social Media and Mental Illness”

  • Sabrina Hermosilla, PhD, MPH

    • Assistant Professor, Population and Family Health
    • “Understanding Impact Across Socio-Ecological Levels Requires Concurrent Data Across Levels: A Multi-level Data Collection Pilot Study Among Populations Affected by Displacement”

  • Robbie M. Parks, PhD

    • Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
    • “TROPIC: Building a Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Knowledge and Resilience Network in a Changing Climate”

  • Amit Ranjan, PhD

    • Associate Research Scientist, Center for Infection and Immunity
    • “A strategy for reducing the morbidity and mortality of antimicrobial resistant infections through precision medicine and public health”

  • Xiao Wu, PhD

    • Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
    • “Evaluating differential air quality and health impacts of prescribed fires and wildfires”