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Megan E Shepherd-Banigan

Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Population Health Sciences
215 Morris Street, DUMC Box 104023, Durham, NC 27701

Available to Mentor


  • Faculty
  • Fellow
  • PhD
  • Undergraduate

Advising & Mentoring


Post-doctoral fellows:

  1. Mentor (tertiary), Melissa Harris-Gersten, PhD, VA QUERI Advancing Diversity in Implementation Leadership, Durham VA ADAPT (2023- )
  2. Mentor (secondary), Judith Vick, MD, Johns Hopkins HEADS Center Pilot Award (2023-2024)
  3. Mentor (primary), Imari Smith, PhD, VA Office of Academic Affairs Postdoctoral Fellow, Durham VA ADAPT (2024- )


PhD students:

  1. Dissertation Committee Member, David Anderson, PhD in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine (2023)


Master's students:

  1. Primary Mentor and Thesis Committee Chair, Tsai-Wei Wang, Masters of Science in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine (2019-2021)
  2. Thesis Committee Chair, Caitlin Sullivan, Masters of Science in Population Health  Sciences, Duke School of Medicine (2021)
  3. Primary Mentor, Hannah Mahoney, Masters of Science in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine (2021-2023)
  4. Primary Mentor, Iori Kamasaki, Masters of Science in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine (2022-2024)
  5. Primary Mentor for Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy Summer Internship Program (Charles Drucker, Meyra Coban) (2022)
  6. Thesis Committee Member, Meyra Coban, Masters of Science in Bioethics and Science Policy, Duke University (2023)
  7. Primary Mentor, Laura Kmitch, Masters of Science in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine (2023-2025)