I am a public health anthropologist who intervenes in global health delivery to ensure effective, culture-centered, and structurally responsive policy and practice.

I have worked with national, regional, and city governments, healthcare providers, community organizations, and community members, in the United States, South Africa, Lesotho, Liberia, and Greece. I use the tools and skills of an anthropologist to interrogate factors contributing to disease and healthcare needs, offering multi-level perspectives on public health programming, service delivery, social conditions, and policy that develop and perpetuate vulnerabilities and related poor health outcomes.

My specific fields of interest include HIV prevention, infectious diseases, disease prevention technologies, health communication, and community collaboration.

I hold a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut. I completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with the University of Virginia, Center for Global Health. I have also served as a program manager with Boston University’s Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance, the City of Boston’s Needle Exchange Program, as an epidemiologist at the Massachusetts State Laboratory, as a research assistant at Boston Medical Center and the Colorado Department of Health. My research has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Fulbright IIE.