Dr. Larisa O.

Across more than a decade of international work, Dr. Ozeryansky has designed and contributed to research, evaluations, and policy-shaping analyses spanning maternal and reproductive health, infectious disease, laboratory systems, homelessness, refugee and migrant well-being, and health equity. Her experience includes technical and advisory roles with partners such as the United Nations Population Fund, KPMG Norway, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Dr. Ozeryansky’s scholarship includes multiple peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations across global and community health topics. Her work has been published in prestigious journals, including the European Journal of Public Health, the American Journal of Epidemiology, and BMC Public Health. Throughout her higher education and research career, Dr. Ozeryansky has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Fulbright Program Research Scholarship in Norway, the Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship, the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace at Middlebury Language Schools, and the Paul D. Coverdell Fellowship. She worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for four years as an ASPPH/PHI Global Health Fellow.

Prior to her work as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Ozeryansky worked as an instructor for sustainability courses at the University of Washington’s Continuum College Japanese Exchange Program and the Program on the Environment. She also served as an instructor for the English Department’s Scientific Writing Program. Now an Assistant Professor in the University of Tennessee Department of Public Health and Nutrition Sciences and the College of Education, Health, & Human Sciences, Dr. Ozeryansky teaches and designs curricula for courses such as Global Health, Public Health Research Methods, Environmental Health, and Adolescent Health. She is also a Principal Investigator for research projects connected to the Public Health Research Methods course.

As a research mentor, Dr. Ozeryansky is known for turning “big interests” into clear, feasible projects with strong academic writing and methodological rigor. Her mentorship style is structured, supportive, and highly practical: she helps students identify a focused research question, build a strong literature base, choose an appropriate study design, and write clearly for scientific audiences. She has experience mentoring students through manuscript development, conference submissions, and long-term skill-building—supporting not only stronger applications, but also stronger scientific thinking. She has supported students through research projects spanning epidemiology, neuroscience, public health, microbiology, biomedical and clinical informatics, and many other fields. Students Dr. Ozeryansky has coached have been accepted to top schools such as Northwestern and Stanford. 

Dr. Ozeryansky is an interdisciplinary global health researcher and educator who mentors undergraduate students and pre-meds through the process of developing rigorous, publication-ready health research papers. She is passionate about coaching future physicians because she believes research training builds clinical reasoning, intellectual curiosity, and ethical judgment.