About Me
The People's Advocate
I am a highly sensitive INFJ, and proud Detroit Native. At my core, I find and help underdogs, fight injustices, defy odds, and believe God has my back. I earned a B.S in Clinical Laboratory Science, and a MPH in Public Health Practice, both from Wayne State University, and a PhD in Epidemiological Sciences from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health. I am a Tenured Social Epidemiology Professor, and Founder and Director of the Social Epidemiology to Eliminate Disparities (SEED) Lab. As an award winning mentor and teacher, and scholar-activist, my research has been funded by the federal government, as well as private philanthropies, and state organizations. I lead the Social Epidemiology to Combat Unjust Residential Environments (SECURE) study www.securestudy.org and co-lead the Equity Core for the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network. As a population health researcher, I find patterns in data, and identify reasons for poor health outcomes among groups of people.
