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Agnideep “Agni” Aich, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAgni's research develops interpretable statistical machine learning methods for clinical, biomedical, and population health data, with interests spanning dependence-aware learning and copula-based methods, extreme-event modeling, predictive modeling, supervised feature selection, and AI in healthcare. At the HEAL Lab, he analyzes clinical workflows and AI implementation to advance understanding of the human experience in healthcare, emphasizing practical, interpretable, human-centered outcomes.
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Stephanie B. Jordan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Emergency Medicine
BioStephanie’s research focuses on social and environmental determinants of health, U.S. public health policy, global health, and health services implementation science. Her research employs primarily quantitative methods. She received her PhD in Public Policy and Sociology from Duke University, where her dissertation focused on the population health impacts of U.S. state public service expenditures on social, environmental, and healthcare services.
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Esmeralda Melgoza
Postdoctoral Scholar, Emergency Medicine
BioEsmeralda Melgoza, PhD, MPH, CHES is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University's School of Medicine. Her research examines health inequities in the U.S. healthcare system, with a focus on emergency medical services provided in the prehospital setting and the emergency department. She centers her research on the experiences of underserved populations, including Latine/Hispanics, older adults, and people with limited English proficiency. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA Network Open, Medical Care, the Journal of the American Heart Association, Health Affairs Scholar, Prehospital Emergency Care, and SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, among others.
Dr. Melgoza received her PhD in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a minor in Gerontology from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Her dissertation research was funded by an R36 grant from the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Melgoza is a former Senior Research Analyst at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and an alumna of the Yale Ciencia Academy at Yale University. She is bilingual in English and Spanish. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, mentoring, and hiking.
