Benjamin Black: Email & Phone Number

Work Experience 6 years

Summer Trainee - CATALYST/Cancer Prevention Research Training Program (CPRTP) at UT MD Anderson

May 2026 - Current

Interdisciplinary NexGen TB Research Advancement Center (IN-TRAC) Traineeship at Texas Biomedical Research Institute

Oct 2024 - Current

Graduate Research Assistant - Dr. Blanca I. Restrepo Laboratory at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health

Sep 2024 - Current

Intern-Infection Control Department at UT MD Anderson

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

Office of Epidemiology, Surveillance, & Emerging Diseases (OESED) Intern - Communicable Diseases at Harris County Public Health

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

Research Assistant - Children’s Airway Screening Taskforce (CAST) at Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Associates (CSMA)

Feb 2024 - Jun 2024

Public Health Intern, Peer Advisor, and Project Manager on the Stop Pesticides Team at CleanEarth4Kids.org

Jan 2024 - Jun 2024

Division 1 Cross Country / Track and Field Student Athlete at NCAA

Aug 2020 - May 2024

Principal Investigator of “COVID-19 Pandemic and College Student Sociability” Research Study at The University of Tulsa

Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC) Program at The University of Tulsa

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Conference Planner - Oklahoma Public Health Association at Oklahoma Public Health Association

Feb 2023 - Sep 2023

UTHealth Houston SPH Visiting Students Program - Dr. Blake Hanson Lab at UTHealth Houston

May 2022 - Aug 2022

Intern - Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Associates at Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Associates (CSMA)

May 2021 - Aug 2021

Their professional focus is Communication Skills, Conference Organization, and Data Analysis across 3 core areas.

Benjamin holds CDC TRAIN Self-Study Modules 1-5 & 6-9 on Tuberculosis Infection and Disease, GIS Basics, and Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in R for Public Health certifications and has been awarded Travel Grant ($1,000) for the 2026 End TB Conference of the Union-North America Region, Aurelia Murphy Killian Endowment in Public Health, and Texas Biomedical Research Institute 2025 IN-TRAC Preliminary Data Pilot Grant ($50,000) for Project: "Secondary frailty: A novel approach to understand tuberculosis"