Gayle Shipp
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSGayle Shipp is in her fourth year at MSU working on an NIH R21 intervention study titled “Mama Bear”.…
Chioma Woko
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSDisproportionate access to health information and resources by marginalized groups is one indicator of health inequity and disparity in…
Jennifer Whittaker
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSPeople living in rural communities experience avoidable and unjust disparities in health outcomes. Lack of access to health care…
Denise St. Jean
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSDenise’s current research explores socioeconomic inequities in childhood diarrheal disease in Latin America. Broadly, she is interested in the…
Destiny M. B. Printz Pereira
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSDestiny's research aims to address mental and physical health disparities in marginalized populations. She is primarily interested in building…
M. Nicole Kunkel
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSNicole’s current research involves testing how chemical exposures during pregnancy may change brain and behavior, and how that impacts…
Angela Adler
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSTens of millions of Americans suffer from one or more illnesses of uncertain cause, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel,…
Alane Celeste-Villalvir
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSPublic health programs, policies, and research have been historically proscriptive, excluding marginalized communities and often denying them the agency…
Jovan Julien
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSIsolated and marginalized individuals, families, communities, and organizations often have the least access to the data and evidence that…
Yaminette Diaz-Linhart
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSYaminette believes that in order to move toward health equity, organizations will need to include frontline workers as active…
Austin Compton
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSAustin is studying mosquito-borne infectious diseases in the context of genetic sex determination in the mosquito vector. He is…
Hannah Cory
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSExperiencing stigma and discrimination has significant impacts on our long-term health. To unravel how these experiences impact health, understanding…
Arjee Javellana Restar
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSArjee’s research engagements in public health concentrate on promoting structural and behavior-based interventions to improve the health of communities…
Kellan Baker
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSKellan believes that health equity is a core social justice issue. His research interests focus on how he and…
Samantha R. H. Scott
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSSamantha is interested in addressing Native Hawaiian health disparities and exploring protective factors that affect the mental and physical…
Samantha M. Perez
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSPancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States, and patients with the most…
Tyler Jimenez
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSTyler Jimenez is broadly interested in how people respond to threats, be that to their society, worldview, or even…
Electa Leigh Hare-RedCorn
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSElecta’s focus area is to continue to support the amazing work of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative of…
Fanice Thomas
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSFanice’s research focuses on improving health behaviors, specifically diet and exercise, in immigrant populations. Current research explores how mindsets…
Leslie Salas-Hernández
By Nicole Racovites onFOCUSMass incarceration is a public health issue that requires continued cross-sector collaboration between community members, policymakers, public health prof…
