Area of Excellence: Social Determinants of Health
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Amber Davis
Dr. Davis a Research Associate at the Disability Health Research Center. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 7+ years of clinical experience with underserved communities, Dr. Davis has an intersectional lens to supporting minoritized persons with disabilities. As a trauma-informed clinician scientist, Dr. Davis’s research investigates the role of cumulative adversities and intersectional resiliency factors […]
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Allison Kelliher
Allison Kelliher, MD, is Koyukon Athabascan, Dena, from Nome, Alaska. She is the first and only physician trained as a Traditional Healer in a Tribal Health setting and weaves this into her practice as a Family and Integrative Physician. She is a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Bloomberg School of […]
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Kali Thomas
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Ashley Gresh
Ashley Gresh is both a certified nurse-midwife and a public health nurse, whose research focuses on addressing inequities in maternal and child health outcomes. Her current work examines the effects of perinatal group-based care on maternal and child health in the postpartum period, and examines ways for adapting, implementing, and sustaining group care in Baltimore […]
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Ariana Chao
Ariana Chao joins the SON from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she was an assistant professor and also served as the medical director at the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders at the Perelman School of Medicine and director of enrichment programs at the Penn Center for Nutrition Science and Medicine. She […]
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Kathryn Taylor
Kathryn Taylor’s research integrates health care quality and equity concepts to improve outcomes for people living with end-stage kidney disease. Dr. Taylor is a PhD graduate from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Previously, she was corporate vice president of quality at Fresenius Kidney Care, a large dialysis organization with over 2,500 outpatient facilities across North […]
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Noelene Kimiko Jeffers
Noelene K. Jeffers has over 10 years of experience as a nurse-midwife serving families in federally qualified health centers, hospitals, and free-standing birth centers in Washington, DC. In her research, Dr. Jeffers utilizes a reproductive justice lens to examine the structural and social determinants of Black maternal and perinatal health. She currently leads or collaborates […]
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Zhiyuan “Effy” Yu
Zhiyuan Yu’s program of research focuses on understanding and preventing the intergenerational transmission of adversity and its health consequences, with an overarching goal to improve health outcomes and equities among families and young children exposed to high levels of adversity. Her interest in families living with adversities sparked when she volunteered to help immigrant mothers […]
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Varshini Varadaraj
Varshini Varadaraj is a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Center. Dr. Varadaraj’s research goals are to improve the health of older adults with disabilities, with a focus on vision loss, using a data-driven approach. Her research focuses on examining disparities in health and health care access for people with disabilities, and her […]
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Hailey Miller
Hailey Miller’s research focuses on leveraging digital technologies to improve disparities in cardiovascular health and clinical trial participation. She currently collaborates on several projects that use digital behavioral health interventions to improve cardiovascular disease risk factors, including hypertension and obesity. Recently, she was the recipient of the Society of Behavioral Medicine Cardiovascular Disease Trainee Award. […]