About Me
The People's Advocate
I am a highly sensitive person, INFJ, and proud native & resident Detroiter. I am committed to my responsibility to doing my part to create the world we deserve, in community, through values-aligned action, with excellence.
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 am Principal Investigator of the Social Epidemiology to Combat Unjust Residential Environments (SECURE) study www.securestudy.org . I lead SECURE Study in partnership with a community advisory board of Black women local and international leaders from various sectors.
As a social epidemiologist, I find patterns in data, and identify reasons for poor population health among groups made vulnerable by society level systems of oppression.
