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Koto Imahori
Masters Student in Community Health and Prevention Research, admitted Autumn 2025
Stanford Student Employee, Bechtel International Center
Game Day Staff, Corporate PartnershipsCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsPreventive Medicine, Suicidology, Eating Disorders
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Stefan Thottunkal
Masters Student in Community Health and Prevention Research, admitted Winter 2025
Other Tech - Graduate, Med/Quantitative Sciences UnitBioMasters Student in Community Health and Prevention Research, admitted Winter 2025
Stefan Thottunkal is an Australian medical student, early career researcher and civil servant. His research interests include chronic disease, Native health, and pharmacogenomics. He is particularly interested in pioneering deployment of innovative technologies in clinical settings, utilizing approaches grounded in implementation science. Stefan received an IIE QUAD Fellowship in 2024 to study a Masters of Community Health and Prevention Research at Stanford.
His current work focuses on precision medicine, advancing implementation of pharmacogenomic testing into clinical practice through leveraging machine learning and large language models to enhance clinical decision-making. He is actively seeking collaboration with those specialised in knowledge-grounded natural language processing and retrieval augmented generation.
Stefan has worked on high impact initiatives conducted in collaboration with the WHO Global Outbreak and Response Network, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization. He is passionate about bridging the gap between research, policy, and practice to drive meaningful change. -
Ashira Weinreich
Masters Student in Community Health and Prevention Research, admitted Autumn 2025
BioMy research examines how diverse biocultural systems inform community health in times of sociocultural and ecological change. By linking cyclical patterns in health practices with seasonality, nutrient intake, and medicinal plant use, I explore how village communities adapt to climatic variability. During my 2024-2025 Fulbright Research Fellowship in Nepal, I interviewed community members, organized and facilitated workshops in 12 villages ranging in elevation from 6,500ft to 13,000ft, engaging over 200 villagers. I believe that anticipatory capacity for ecosystem variability is important in understanding community health in Nepal’s high-altitude Himalayan Mountain regions. I am committed to a collaborative, community-centered approach to research, emphasizing the importance of reciprocity and giving back to the community.
