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Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology

College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Her research examines questions related to social factors and their relationships with mental health and mental health services and engages mixed-methods approaches aimed to elevate the voices of lived-experience. Most recently, she has been Co-PI of the Salus Populi project, which supports the development, implementation, and evaluation of the first judicial education program (JEP) to train judges in the social drivers of health (SDOH).

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  • 2008  Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Urban Mental Health Research, Boston Medical Center
  • 2008  Expert Advisory Panel Member, Blue Cross Blue Shield Community Health Mapping Project
  • 2007  Scientific Advisory Committee to the New York State Office of Mental Health, Center for the Study of Recovery in Context
  • 2000  Member, American Public Health Association, Mental Health Section
  • 1997  Member, American Sociological Association, Sections on Sociology of Mental Illness and Medical Sociology
  • 1997 – 1998  Student Representative to the Mental Health Section of the American Sociological Association
  • 1989 – 1992  Massachusetts Women and Substance Abuse Task Force Member, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  • Education

    PhD, Sociomedical Sciences
    Columbia University, 1998

  • Contact

    617.373.3485 [email protected]
  • Address

    324 International Village
    360 Huntington Avenue
    Boston, MA 02115