Laura Skow, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology working with both the Cochlear Center and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. She is mentored by Jennifer Deal, PhD. She completed her doctorate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2022 in the Cardiovascular and Clinical Trials concentration. Her research focuses on the intersection between brain health, cognition, and mobility in older adults. 

Sahar Assi graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon in 2022. She joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and is mentored by Nicholas Reed, AuD.  Assi is interested in studying the impact of hearing loss on healthcare outcomes in older adults, mainly focusing on the association of hearing loss and falls.

Elizabeth Kolberg, AuD, MS graduated from University of South Carolina in 2010 with her Bachelors of Science degree in Biology and a minor in Communication Sciences & Disorders. She continued her education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, during which time she received a T35 Research Training Grant through the National Institute of Health. She received her Doctorate of Audiology in 2014 after completing her residency at Children’s National Medical Center. Kolberg then served for three and a half years as a research audiologist at the James H.

Kelly Malcolm, AuD, MPH is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and is mentored by Cochlear Center director Frank Lin, and core faculty Nicholas Reed and Carrie Nieman. She received her AuD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2020 and her MPH with a concentration in global health from Harvard University in 2021. Her research interests include increasing access to hearing care to underserved populations through community-based interventions and health service policies.