About Me
We don't all have the same chance to live a long and healthy life.
In my research, I seek to document, understand, and reduce unfairness in health by building evidence for implementation of policy interventions that make a difference. I focus this work in three areas: the health of young people at risk of tobacco use; the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; and the health of farmworkers and farmworker families.
As part of that work, I lead the NC site of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco and am a co-research partner of an NIH Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) initiative led by the NC Farmworker Health Program.