
Our HTQLab undergrads, Jessica Nwokeji and Adeline Jolley, had recently presented at Purdue Undergraduate Research Expo (Fall 2025) about their research titled “Evaluating the Impact of Community Health Worker-Led Education on the Cervical Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes Seen in People Experiencing Homelessness“ They received great feedback and had a great time presenting insights. Great job!

Our lab is excited to spotlight Mrithula, who presented at the IAPHS 2025 Conference on breast and cervical cancer screening access. Her presentation, “Stakeholder Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators to Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening among Hispanic Women in Indiana,” emphasized: This pilot project was part of a broader community assessment to identify barriers and

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Graduate student Layla Claure presented at the International Papillomavirus Conference (IPVC) in Washington, D.C., on Friday. During her time at the conference, Claure said she was able to learn about the innovative research being conducted around the world as well as the future work that needs to be done for HPV vaccination, cervical cancer screening,

Tiwalade Adekunle presented her poster on a community health worker (CHW)-led cervical cancer screening model for Lake County, Indiana. Indiana aims to engage CHWs to increase the rate of females screened for HPV by 2023. The model involves CHWs helping community members self-sample for HPV. This is an effective and promising method to reduce cervical

Three students presented posters with their research on approaching health equity at Purdue’s Undergraduate Research Conference Tuesday afternoon. Easy-to-use HPV Tests Francesca Hamacher presented her research on a new rapid test for detecting HPV, an extremely common sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical cancer. Her project aims to develop an affordable and easy-to-use test

Shreya Sridhar and Jillian Kelley won first place at the Health and Human Sciences Research Poster Symposium last month for their poster on COVID-19 testing for people experiencing homelessness.