Volunteers
Jugnu Shrestha, MD, MPH
Medical Resident, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Email: jxs548@case.edu
Jugnu Shrestha earned a B.A. in Biochemistry and International Studies and a Masters of Public Health. She completed medical school at Ross University School of Medicine and she is a Board Certified Family Medicine Physician. Jugnu is a Medical Resident at University Hospitals in the Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine Combined Program and will graduate in June 2026. Jugnu is volunteering at the Swetland Center, supporting the REACH grant and other projects as needed.
Interns
Annabel Bertoni
Community Food Access Summer Intern, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Email: abertoni27@jcu.edu
Annabel is a rising senior at John Carroll University where she is studying Computer Science, Data Science, and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights. Annabel first became interested in food security through her internship last summer at Re:Source Cleveland when the new federal SNAP policies began to change. Following this internship, she continued to research SNAP changes, consequences, and community-based solutions, presenting her findings at two different conferences. She now continues this research with Dr. Darcy Freedman through the Mary Ann Swetland Center.
Vennila Ramasubramanian
Community Food Access Summer Intern, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Email: vxr188@case.edu
Vennila is a PhD student at Case Western studying Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is currently interning at the Swetland Center looking at how federal SNAP changes affect food retailers and customers. She is originally from Pittsburgh and studied Computational Biology and Global Health at the University of Pittsburgh.
Graduate Research Assistants
Eleanor Gillerlane Hinkes, MA, MPH
Healthy Food Choices Graduate Research Assistant, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Email: erg91@case.edu
Eleanor Gillerlane Hinkes (MA, MPH) is a PhD candidate in the anthropology department and a graduate of CWRU's MPH program. She is the Graduate Research Assistant on Project 2: PSEs on the Healthy Food Choices Project.
Stephany Schelm-Hughes, BS
Healthy Food Choices Graduate Research Assistant, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Email: stephany.schelm-hughes@case.edu
Stephany is a second-year MSW student at Case Western Reserve University. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate student, Stephany worked with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department, where she connected underserved families to food access resources like SNAP and public health services such as Medicaid/Medicare and STD/HIV testing. She is currently contributing to research at the Swetland Center for SNAP recipients as part of the Healthy Food Choices Project.