March 12, 2020

The Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST), led by Jennifer Taylor, PhD, MPH, CPPS, director of FIRST and an associate professor in the department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH), is proud to announce the 2020 cohort and the 5th anniversary of the Fire service Injury Research, Epidemiology and Evaluation (FIRE) Fellowship.

Fellowship recipients, known as “FIRE Fellows,” hail from the DSPH and include alumni. During the summer they will be trained in data management and analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods, professional development, and learn about the fire service through stakeholder engagement and field immersion.

Since its inception in 2016, 21 fellows completed the program with 30 percent being newly minted alumni. 

The 2020 FIRE Fellowship recipients are (pictured from left to right, back row to front row):

• Zuhaib Haleem, MPH(c) 2021, Department of Health Management & Policy
• Alexandra Trautman, MPH 2020, Department of Community Health & Prevention
• Oreoluwa Oladimeji, MPH(c) 2021, Department of Community Health & Prevention
• Alexandria Reguinga, MPH(c) 2021, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health
• Rozhan Ghanbari, MPH(c) 2021, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• Katherine Castro, MPH 2020, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• Nathaniel Philip, MPH(c) 2021, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health
• Gabrielle Mullin, MPH(c) 2021, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (not pictured)

Learn more about the FIRST Center