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Personal Summary

I am a social epidemiologist and health promotion researcher who has long been focused on promoting health equity and reducing disparities. Prior to earning my PhD, I spent more than a decade working in public health practice for governmental and non-governmental organizations in the U.S. and internationally.

Education

2019     PhD Health Behavior Health Promotion, University of Arizona

2016    MPH, Des Moines University

2009    MA, International Studies, University of Wyoming

2004    BS, Journalism/Spanish, University of Wyoming

Courses Taught

PUBH 445 - Program Planning (offered Spring)

CHTH 485 - Community Health Promotion Theory (offered Spring of odd years)

Research Interests

My work seeks to redress disparities in healthy aging through two primary research threads: 1) using epidemiology methods to disentangle the role of social and physical environments across the lifecourse in driving disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD); 2) extending translational research and implementation science methods to test the effect of population-level interventions and strategies that improve aging outcomes among racially/ethnically and geographically diverse populations.

Projects

National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Award Number: R00AG073457

Lifecourse Community Contexts and Health Behaviors as Drivers of Disparities in Risk of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Role: Principal Investigator

Sept. 2022-Aug. 2025

Field of Study

Health Promotion; Social Epidemiology; Gerontology

Publications