IAPHS Health Equity Award Winner

Her work explores how discrimination and social marginalization interact with the body to shape trajectories of health among targeted populations. Her collaborations have produced innovative methodological approaches and theoretical foundations that seek to improve understanding of how social conditions get into the mind and under the skin. The goal of this work is to provide rigorous interdisciplinary theory application and study designs to improve research strategies that address social inequality and population health inequities. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and her work has appeared in various venues including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Science and Medicine, Stress: International Journal on the Biology of Stress, and International Journal of Psychophysiology.