Greater Boston
ABOUT ME I am an ABD doctoral candidate in Population Health at Northeastern University, with a graduate certificate in Postsecondary Teaching. My work explores how social structures, policy environments, and economic conditions interact to create and perpetuate population health inequities, particularly for migrant and other marginalized populations. RESEARCH FOCUS I employ quantitative and qualitative methodologies to examine how violence--broadly defined (e.g., interpersonal, structural, epistemic)--shapes health, with the goal of informing research, policy, and practice. DISSERTATION My mixed-methods dissertation examines how the U.S. sociopolitical context influences victimization, help-seeking, and health outcomes among Latine populations. Using both community-based and national longitudinal data, I explore: (1) The impact of polyvictimization on help-seeking and mental health, (2) The influence of adolescent launch contexts on violence exposure and self-rated health in young adulthood, and (3) How victims decide whether to seek help and the health implications of those decisions. The promise of this work has been recognized nationally, as my defended dissertation proposal was selected as a finalist in the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science Student Award competition.