PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Prevention and Control
Area of Interest
My research seeks to understand and address inequities in cancer prevention and control with a specific focus on the intersections of race, gender, and sexual orientation. I use mixed-method, community-engaged approaches to data collection and analyses. My current work attends to barriers to engagement in cancer care among racialized sexual and gender minority populations. The ultimate goal is to identify appropriate strategies to intervene on structures to advance equity in the cancer prevention and care continua.
Awards and Honors
- SisterLove’s Pandora Singleton Ally Award, 2022
- Expertscape World Expert in Transgender Health, 2021
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award (South Africa), 2021
- NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Health Researcher Spotlight, 2020
- Simmons Scholar Award, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 2018
- Diversity Visiting Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, 2017
- Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Scholar Award, 2017
- Johns Hopkins Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching and mentorship, 2017
- Richard L. Gelb Award, Johns Hopkins Faculty Innovation Cancer Prevention Fund, 2017
- Intersectional Qualitative Research Institute Scholar, University of Maryland, 2015
- Johns Hopkins University Diversity Leadership Award, 2014
- Out to Innovate Scholarship Award, 2011
- Center for Population Research on LGBT Health Summer Institute Scholar, 2011
- Distinguished Fellow, American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2007
- Charles and Sue Hardman Scholarship Award, 2005
- The Point Foundation Scholarship Award, 2004
- National Health Service Corps Scholarship Award, 1993
