The Daniel Lewis Ravin, MD Award honors MD students and PhD candidates enrolled in the School of Medicine at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ who show promise in the fields of occupational or environmental health. The 2025-2026 award winner is Anthony Orsino.
Anthony Orsino
Anthony Orsino is a fourth-year Epidemiology and Biostatistics PhD student at the CWRU School of Medicine in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences. His goal is to use the award to fund formal trainings in social network analysis and disseminations related to his dissertation work. His dissertation focuses on the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio train disaster, and his work is grounded in the One Health paradigm, which "."
Tell us about yourself
Since my first semester of undergraduate training in Public Health at The American University in Washington, D.C., I've known that public health is where I want to make a difference for the better. Through working hard and caring a lot about health (in all the many ways in manifests), I am charting a path for myself to have a career where I can bridge academic knowledge and methods with applied public health practice, particularly in the One Health paradigm. In my free time, I enjoy playing video games with my friends, One-to-One's fitness classes, and finding ways to shop sustainably.
What excites you about the Daniel Lewis Ravin Award?
The best part about this award is that I get to join a body of environmental health scholars who are creating science that makes for healthier people and advances us toward environmental health equity. While this has been my mission since the start of my career in public health, joining the Ravin Scholars who have come before me--those that have driven progress in food as food is medicine, sexual and reproductive health education, and health in the criminal justice system--is incredibly inspiring. I feel a sense of community in knowing that we are all striving to honor Dr. Ravin's legacy by continuing in the spirit of how he practiced medicine and environmental health science. This award is energizing, and it inspires me to rise to the levels of greatness reached by the honorees before me and by Dr. Ravin before them.
What are your plans for this award year?
The generosity of this award allows me to pursue extramural training that I otherwise wouldn't be able to immerse myself in or enrich my PhD curriculum with. For one, this award allows me to train at Duke in social network analysis methods, something that is central to my dissertation work examining the response network of the 2023 East Palestine Ohio train disaster. I've been self-trained in these methods to date, and this opportunity provides a formal and strong foundation for this science. Additionally, I hope to train at UC Davis next summer as they do amazing work in the One Health sphere. This will provide me with hands-on, boots-on-the-ground experience in One Health work that I hope will inform my future science and practice. Lastly, this award will help me with sharing my dissertation work in public forums so that I may get feedback and make my findings accessible to all.