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Assistant Research Scientist
NYU Langone Medical Center
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
My professional background and interests are in public health and health communications with the goal to provide vital information to patients and their loved ones in order to help improve their health, particularly in underserved and under-resourced communities. I received my Master’s in Public Health with a focus on health promotion, employing health behavior theory to develop programming that appreciates the various barriers and facilitators to good health at the individual and community levels.
In my past work, I've managed the development and implementation of two research studies to improve health in the underserved community of Harlem, NY; working with community members and organizations to develop and maintain a geographically tailored, culturally-relevant and health literacy appropriate website. Additionally, I've managed a randomized-controlled trial to find the best ways to reduce hypertension in the Upper Manhattan communities of Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood.
Currently, I manage various neuro-rehabilitation studies including the Rusk Rehabilitation Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems database (RRTBIMS), a nationwide longitudinal database to examine the natural course of TBI from the acute stage through rehabilitation treatment and long-term effects many years post-injury. As Co-Investigator of a mixed-methods study, “Traumatic Brain Injury as a Chronic Condition”, I sought to understand how low-resource community members understand and manage life with a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Over the course of 20 years in public health research, I remain passionate in the development and sustainability of research with and within communities.
