I have a background in urban planning and environmental sciences, and am committed to research that helps us understand relationships between the built environment and health, especially health disparities. My research has examined efforts to open new supermarkets in underserved areas ("food deserts") by considering development processes, store-level outcomes, and community and customer experiences.
My latest research focuses on relationships between individuals' neighborhood perceptions and health disparities. I was co-Principal Investigator (Dr. Abby King, co-PI) for a pilot study, the Stress Experiences in Neighborhood and Social Environments Study (SENSE), that initiated a new line of inquiry using physiological data to better understand individuals' neighborhood perceptions within a community-engaged research process, called Our Voice.
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I recently completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship with the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and am presently an Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University.
