Bio

Shamsi Soltani completed a PhD in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and was a trainee with the Center for Population Health Sciences, both in the Stanford School of Medicine. For three years, she was a fellow in the NIH T-32 Training in Advanced Data Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences (TADA-BSSR) program, supervised by Drs. Abby King and Lorene Nelson. Her dissertation work studied modifiable risk factors for suicide in LGBTQ+ populations and was mentored by Dr. Mitchell Lunn.