Global health PhD student receives Dissertation Completion Award for winter term

Congratulations to Hillary Smith, PhD student in public health - global health, who was selected for the Office of Graduate Education's Dissertation Completion Award for winter 2026. The award supports outstanding doctoral students who are in the final stages of their dissertations.

Hillary’s dissertation, La Muerte Lenta: Negotiating the Realities of Risk and Suffering in an Anthropological Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in Yucatán, Mexico, reflects impressive intellectual ambition and methodological rigor.