Teacher
Global Health | Health Disparities | Health and Religion
My teaching experiences include formal and informal instruction with middle school, high school, undergraduate and nontraditional students in the U.S., the U.K., and West Africa, as well as for women serving life sentences in a maximum security prison.
Today, my instruction focuses on three primary areas:
Global Health
How do communities across the world gain access to care; what are the leading health disparities in the world; and how can I collaborate with others to increase access to undergraduate opportunities for service and study abroad?
Health Disparities
How do uninsured, underinsured and other marginalized populations within the U.S. gain access to care; in what ways can practitioners, policy makers, and communities ensure health equity; and how do we provide timely, affordable, and equitable care to the broader spectrum of the population who identify as women?
- Medication adherence among African-American women who have been HIV positive for 10 or more years.
- Rural community health needs assessment findings: Access to care and mental health.
- Leveraging university-community partnerships in rural Georgia: A community health needs assessment template for hospitals.
- The daily relationship between aspects of food insecurity and medication adherence among people living with HIV with recent experiences of hunger.
Public Health & Religion
How do subpopulations make decisions about their health based on religious and/or spiritual beliefs; what can faith-based communities do to address stigmatized diseases such as HIV; and how can health care professionals and faith leaders work together to develop health promotion programs, as well as practices, that integrate health and spirituality?
- Impact of spirituality on resilience and coping during the COVID-19 Crisis: A mixed-method approach investigating the impact on women
- Promoting policy and environmental change in faith-based organizations: Description and findings from a mini-grants program.
- Promoting policy and environmental change in faith-based organizations: Outcome evaluation of a mini-grants program.
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