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Sarai Dean

MPH in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Email:

sdean28@uic.edu

About

Sarai Dean is an MPH student studying Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology. Sarai has worked at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology for the past 4.5 years as a Research Assistant. Understanding the role of Chromatin Assembly Factor 1 Subunit B in the role of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. During her time at Children’s, she has merged her interests for science research and passion for health equity within public health. By being engaged with community leaders at the annual Health Equity Day to better understand and help solve the equitable gaps that are present within the pediatric patient population being served around Cincinnati Children’s and beyond.

Her previous experience includes working in the community with nonprofits as a volunteer for Girls Health Period LLC, dedicated to get empowering students, families, school staff to end stigma around menstruation.

Sarai’s interests within maternal and child health includes epidemiology, reproductive justice/advocacy, and the Black maternal mortality and morbidity rates in childbearing individuals. Sarai’s goal in the future is use community-based approach method and analytical data to challenge and develop new clinical outcomes surrounding labor and delivery, pregnancy, and contraception access/knowledge that will provide better standard of care for future patients.

Fun Fact: Sarai has been to China twice and played the Tuba!

Selected Publications

Dean, S; Ishikawa, C; Zhu, X; Walulik, S; Nixon, T; Jordan, J; Henderson, S; Wyder, M; Salamonis, N; Wunderlich, M; Greis, K; Starczynowski, D; Volk, A. Repression of TRIM13 by chromatin assembly factor CHAF1B is critical for AML development. (Blood Advances 2023)

Selected Presentations

  1. Dean, S. Presenter, Cincinnati Children’s Research Symposium, Cincinnati OH (2023)
  2. Dean, S. Presenter, Myeloid Meeting and Thirteenth International Workshop on Molecular Aspects of Myeloid Stem Cell Development and Leukemia, Cincinnati OH (2022)
  3. Dean, S. Presenter, University of Cincinnati Cancer Research Retreat, Cincinnati OH (2022)
  4. Dean, S. Presenter, Success Strategies for African American Students in STEM presentation at the Regional Black Student Symposium: Promoting Collegiate Involvement & Advocacy, Northern Kentucky University (2017)