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I am a postdoctoral scholar in UC-Irvine's Department of Health, Society, & Behavior, under the mentorship of Dr. Tim Bruckner. I received my joint PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University in May 2023. I have over a decade of research and policy experience that has prepared me well to produce objective, high-quality social science & policy research.

 

Broadly, I study the social determinants of health, with a focus on how social contexts & state-level policies shape health outcomes in both the near & long term. My current work explores how social contexts & state policies contribute to the intergenerational transmission of racial-ethnic health inequities through birth outcomes.​

 

In other work, I explore the mental health consequences of micro and macro stressors, including discrimination and restrictive reproductive health politics. My work has also examined social scientists' ability to use not yet widely adopted data collection methods (network sampling with memory) & administrative datasets (Electronic Health Records) to describe & draw population-representative inferences about small & hard-to-reach populations.

 

My research is published in Demography, Journal of Health & Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, SSM-Mental Health, & SSM-Population Health and has been supported by Duke University's Phillip Jackson Baugh Fellowship.