Overview
How inclusion of civic issues, international connections, and social engagement alters the cognitive and affective responses of non- major science students to science education. Developing inclusive course content and structure. Interventions that improve education and positive mental health and reduce HIV risk for adolescent girls in rural Kenya. www.wisergirls.org
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of the Practice of Biology
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2020 - Present
Biology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of the Practice of Global Health
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2020 - Present
Duke Global Health Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Is social-ecological risk associated with individual HIV risk beliefs and behaviours?: An analysis of Kenyan adolescents' local communities and activity spaces.
Journal Article Global public health · December 2022 The places where adolescents live, learn, and play are thought to influence behaviours and health, but we have limited tools for measuring environmental risk on a hyperlocal (e.g. neighbourhood) level. Working with 218 adolescents and their parents/guardia ... Full text CiteDietary Diversity and Dietary Patterns in School-Aged Children in Western Kenya: A Latent Class Analysis.
Journal Article International journal of environmental research and public health · July 2022 Inadequate diet among children has both immediate and long-term negative health impacts, but little is known about dietary diversity and dietary patterns of school-aged children in rural Kenya. We assessed dietary diversity and identified dietary patterns ... Full text CiteBetween a hygiene rock and a hygienic hard place: Avoiding SARS-CoV-2 while needing environmental exposures for immunity.
Journal Article Evol Med Public Health · 2021 Suboptimal understanding of concepts related to hygiene by the general public, clinicians and researchers is a persistent problem in health and medicine. Although hygiene is necessary to slow or prevent deadly pandemics of infectious disease such as corona ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Do Linked International Curricula in Biology Enhance Science Literacy and Engagement in Non-Science and Pre-major Students?
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2009HIV and Obstacles to Girls' Education in Kenya
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2006 - 2007View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Indiana University at Indianapolis ·
1990
Ph.D.
Cornell University ·
1984
B.A.