Assistant Professor and Director
Emory University/Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE)
I am a Rollins Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and the Director and Principal Investigator of the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast (RISE). As a public health scholar, I leverage training and transdisciplinary expertise from maternal and child health, health policy, and health services, outcomes and effectiveness research disciplines in the pursuit of greater equity in sexual and reproductive health outcomes, care delivery, and scholarship. My research program to date has focused on examining implications of social and systems–level contexts (e.g., stigma, discrimination, policy change) for psychosocial and health outcomes as well as healthcare access and use, particularly in family planning, HIV prevention, and perinatal health settings.