My research focuses on family health, refugee health, quality improvement, implementation science, and community-engaged work. My work is at the nexus of theory and practice, seeking to implement evidence-based work, evaluating the implemented programs, and making recommendations in ways that are both audience and situation responsive.
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quality improvement, implementation science, community-based participatory research, applied public health
Teaching
courses taught
GEOG 2692 - Foundations in Public Health
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Get a comprehensive overview of public health as well as an in-depth introduction to specific public health-related topics. Beginning with a historical overview, students will explore major public health concepts such as the basic principles of epidemiology, the biomedical basis of disease, social and behavioral determinants of health, and systems thinking. Learn about the concepts of measuring and evaluating the health of populations, principles of communicable and non-communicable diseases, environmental and occupational health, the economics of health, and the role of public health workers in society. Same as IPHY 2692 and PBHL 2692.
IPHY 2692 - Foundations in Public Health
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Get a comprehensive overview of public health as well as an in-depth introduction to specific public health-related topics. Beginning with a historical overview, students will explore major public health concepts such as the basic principles of epidemiology, the biomedical basis of disease, social and behavioral determinants of health, and systems thinking. Learn about the concepts of measuring and evaluating the health of populations, principles of communicable and non-communicable diseases, environmental and occupational health, the economics of health, and the role of public health workers in society. Same as GEOG 2692 and PBHL 2692.
PBHL 2692 - Foundations in Public Health
Primary Instructor
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Get a comprehensive overview of public health as well as an in-depth introduction to specific public health-related topics. Beginning with a historical overview, students will explore major public health concepts such as the basic principles of epidemiology, the biomedical basis of disease, social and behavioral determinants of health, and systems thinking. Learn about the concepts of measuring and evaluating the health of populations, principles of communicable and non-communicable diseases, environmental and occupational health, the economics of health, and the role of public health workers in society. Same as IPHY 2692 and GEOG 2692.
PBHL 4000 - Special Topics In Public Health
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Spring 2026
Examines various topics in public health that are not typically covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
PBHL 4142 - Public Health Capstone in Public Health Practice: Internships
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
This 3-credit capstone internship course provides students with practical experience at an approved public health agency. Intended for seniors or advanced juniors, students must complete at least 160 hours over one semester (16 weeks) in health education, program implementation and/or evaluation, or other approved activities based on Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) objectives and goals. Recommended prerequisites of GEOG/IPHY 2692, GEOG 3692, and GEOG/IPHY 2692.
