UW Institute for Public Health Genetics
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UW Institute for Public Health Genetics
@iphg-uw.bsky.social
One of a kind graduate program emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach to using genomic advances to improve population health.
Final day of #PHGW2025! 🎉 Meet Gechlang Tang, Fulbright Scholar and Genetic Epi student. Her thesis work is advancing methods to estimate bacterial biomass from metagenomic data.

We're so proud of our students and grateful to share their hard work with you!
#PublicHealthGenetics #StudentSpotlight
June 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Day 3 of #PHGW2025! Meet Kelsey, who's completing her master’s thesis on gene-environment interactions and their impact on telomere length. This fall, she’ll be taking the next big step by joining our department as a Ph.D. student! Congrats, Kelsey! 👏🎓 #StudentSpotlight #PublicHealthGenetics
May 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Day 2 of #PHGW2025! Today we’re spotlighting Nikhita, a 3rd-year PhD Candidate using bioinformatics and health economics to improve rare disease diagnostics. 🧬 She recently co-authored the first paper from the 1000 Genomes-ONT sequencing consortium 👏 #StudentSpotlight #PublicHealthGenetics
May 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
🎉🧬 It's Public Health Genetics Week!🧬 🎉
This #PHGW2025, we’re spotlighting the incredible students of IPHG! Meet Jiachen—a PhD student advancing cancer genomics and advocating for diversity in research. Stay tuned for more student spotlights this week!
#PublicHealthGenetics #StudentSpotlight
May 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Please join us in welcoming @smfullerton.bsky.social in her role as Interim Director of IPHG! Read more on our student blog:
sites.uw.edu/phgblog/2025...
April 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM