PHSR PhD Student Wins Greg Alexander Outstanding Student Paper Award at APHA 2025
Third-year PhD student Tien Tran (Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, UMB School of Pharmacy), under the mentorship of Dr. Zafar Zafari, received the Greg Alexander Outstanding Student Paper Award from the Maternal and Child Health Section at the 153rd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) in Washington, D.C. (November 2–5, 2025). The winning paper is available here: The long-term impact of COVID-19 school closures on childhood obesity in the United States: A 20-year cohort simulation study