About

I am a research associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. My training is in history, public health, and implementation science. My work focuses on the implementation of interventions in mental, maternal-child, and reproductive health. I also spend time thinking about how to combine methods and archives from the field of history to enhance how we address public health questions. Methodologically, my work is grounded in qualitative and mixed methods, the history of medicine, and interdisciplinary collaboration. I am currently working on projects in the state of Connecticut, Nepal, and Mexico.

My research draws on semi-structured interviews, oral histories, textual documents. My work has been published in Women’s Health, Social Science & Medicine, Health and Place, JAMA Open Network, and Implementation Research and Practice. I am also a regular contributor and advisory board member for the health and humanities journal Synapsis.

Prior to coming to Penn, I received a master’s degree in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College and a PhD in history and public health from Yale University. I also completed a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (T32) in implementation science at the Yale School of Public Health.