Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Theological Ethics
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2025 - Present
Divinity School
Recent Scholarly Works
Sociodemographic characteristics of maternal presence in neonatal intensive care: an intersectional analysis.
Journal article Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · September 2025 ObjectiveMaternal presence in the Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) supports infant and maternal health, yet mothers face visitation challenges. Based on intersectionality theory, we hypothesized that mothers of Black infants with lower socioeconomic ... Full text CiteIdentifying Facilitators and Barriers to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Visitation in Mothers of Low Socioeconomic Status: A Qualitative Investigation.
Journal article Children (Basel, Switzerland) · November 2024 Background/objectivesThe experience of parenting in a highly medicalized, unnatural environment can result in impaired mother-infant bonding, but increased maternal presence at the infant's bedside has been associated with improved infant and mate ... Full text CiteFramework for Ethical Community Engagement (ECE) with Underserved Populations in the Rural South: A Help for Bioethics and Healthcare Promotion.
Journal article Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · January 2019 Mainstream bioethics has dealt inadequately with issues of race, gender, and class that intersect and shape the life experiences of vulnerable populations in the U.S., such as Black women in the rural South who have faced bioethical and public health chall ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
The Economic and Social Implications of Online Grocery Platforms for U.S. Consumers
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Agriculture · 2023 - 2027View All Grants
Education
Emory University ·
2009
Ph.D.