PhD Student
University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Paulina Colombo, MPH, is a second-year doctoral student, attending the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. She is pursuing a PhD in epidemiology and simultaneously completing a graduate certificate in healthcare informatics. At present, Paulina is completeing a pharmacoepidemiology internship with BeiGene and is a Graduate Research Assistant assisting her academic mentor, Dr. Kate Ellingson, in designing an infection prevention internship program at UArizona.
Paulina's main research interests include antimicrobial stewardship, health informatics, infection prevention, and health disparities. Her prior research portfolio includes numerous efforts to assist the COVID-19 response, such as developing University contract tracing infrastructure, supervising State-wide outbreak investigations, creating an Arizona-based COVID-19 information dissemination platform, and participating in the development of a 10,000-participant cohort study to examine the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2. Paulina's proposed dissertation work aims to explore antimicrobial stewardship progress in the post-COVID space.