I am a population health scholar and Research Associate at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. I currently hold an Assistant Professor Position at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. My overarching research seeks to bridge studies of social/environmental determinants of health and health service research to advance theoretical understanding of how health inequities are generated at the population level and inform policy and community-level interventions.

My research is organized around three lines of inquiry: 1) Examining the role of education policies for racial/ethnic integration and choice on health inequities among US children and adults, 2) Understanding whether and how modifiable structural factors such as neighborhood disadvantage generate health inequities in a diverse population, including refugee population in Denmark, 3) Validating the measure of timely diagnosis of dementia and quantifying structural determinants (i.e., racial segregation and geographic distribution of health care resources) associated with racial disparities in delayed dementia diagnosis.

For my K99/R00 work, I work closely with mentors and colleagues in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Department of Neurology, and the Division of Geriatrics.