Capstone Presentations 2026 – Day 1

Date: July 20, 2026
Time: 9 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. PT

Byers Auditorium, Genentech Hall 

Please join the Master of Science in Global Health students for presentations of their capstone research projects as the culmination of the 11-month MS program. Guests are invited to attend either on Zoom or in person, and participation in the Q&A is especially welcome.

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Presentation Schedule

Time Slot Student Capstone Title
9 to 9:15 a.m. Payal Hegde Fa‘alogo ma talanoa ma ē matutua: A Qualitative Study to Gather Community Perspectives of Dementia Care in American Samoa.
9:15 to 9:30 a.m. Alyssa Wainaina “The Girl Did Not Have Any Other Option”: Poverty, Early Pregnancy and Education Access Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya
9:30 to 9:45 a.m. Dominic Antelo Incidence Rates of Three Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among People with Middle Eastern and North African Origin Who Live in the San Francisco Bay Area
9:45 to 10 a.m. Zuha Adnan Beyond Surgical Repair: Follow-Up Care After Genital Fistula Repair in Uganda
10 to 10:15 a.m. Thai Lee “Lost My Whole World”: A Photo-Elicitation Study of Loneliness Among Hmong American Adults Aged 50 and Older in California’s Central Valley
10:15 to 10:45 a.m. BREAK
10:45 to 11 a.m. Selen Gokcen Looking at the Effectiveness of Physical Activity Programs Among Female Adolescents with Diabetes in LMICs
11 to 11:15 a.m. Sanjana Anand Barriers, Enablers, Appropriateness, and Acceptability of a Diabetes App for Self-Management Among Patients in Chennai, India
11:15 to 11:30 a.m. Rashim Hakim Perceptions of Household Labor Division and Community Expectations Among Perinatal Couples in Rural Rajasthan
11:30 to 11:45 a.m. Jaydi Romero Advancing Farmworker Health Communication: Comparing the Readability and Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Delivered WhatsApp Responses for Health Information Communication Among Farmworkers in California
11:45 a.m. to noon Afroze Khan Systematic review exploring burden of sexually transmitted infections of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers of Middle Eastern and North African origin in North America and Europe
noon to 1 p.m. LUNCH
1 to 1:15 p.m. Joseph Jung Measuring Sense of Agency and Its Association with Patient Recruitment Among UCSF Predoctoral Dental Students
1:15 to 1:30 p.m. Fidan Aghayeva Chest X-ray as a Measure of Tuberculosis Severity: Associations with Microbiologic and Clinical Outcomes
1:30 to 1:45 p.m. Isabel de la Torre Of Body and Mind: Understanding Care Outcomes for People Living with HIV and Severe Mental Illness in San Francisco
1:45 to 2 p.m. William Yu Ciliary Gαs trafficking by Gpr63 regulates Sonic Hedgehog signaling and medulloblastoma tumorigenesis