I am a medical anthropologist, global health researcher and feminist scholar, whose research focuses on issues of gender, sexuality and health. I am primarily interested in the HIV pandemic and have conducted research on HIV prevention and treatment in various countries in Africa. I have held teaching positions at the College of the Holy Cross (MA), where I taught undergraduate courses on global health (e.g., Intro to Global Health, Health and Development, Mixed-Methods in Health Research, HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective) and coordinated the health studies program. At Clark University (MA),  I taught the graduate courses Gender and Health and Health Promotion and Interventions for the masters in health sciences program (Dept of International Development, Community and Environment). Every summer, I co-teach a week-long workshop on Qualitative Research Methods in Infectious Diseases (McGill University Global Health Summer Institutes).

I have several research projects currently in the works, namely: 

• a storytelling project to document the history of AIDS Project Worcester, the oldest AIDS service organization in central Massachusetts
• a racial equity program with a community health center in Worcester. 
• I am developing a new research area that focuses on neglected topics in global health, specifically menstruation and menopause. I am especially interested in the normalization of menstruation and menopause -related discomforts by the health field, broadly, and the invisibility of these two issues in dominant global health discourses. This research will focus on everyday experiences of menstruation and menopause and the strategies individuals use to manage these processes. I am currently pilot-testing the feasibility and acceptability of re-usable menstrual products, particularly the menstrual disc, among students at WPI. I have also recently received a Women's Impact Grant to conduct a large mixed-methods study on the prevalence of menstrual discomfort at WPI. This study will commence in Fall 2024. 
• Another "new-ish" research area focuses on democratising global health by exploring how we can re-imagine the U.S. and other 'high-income countries' as sites for global health intervention: What does it mean to do global health in such contexts? 

I currently serve as an associate editor-in-chief for the American Journal of Health Promotion (2019-) and Frontiers in Public Health: Health Education and Promotion Specialty Section (2023-) and sit on the editorial boards of Culture, Health and Sexuality (2018-) and Medical Anthropology (2021-). I sit on various committees and boards, namely, the Reimagining Reproduction, a Wellcome Trust funded project based in South Africa, AIDS Project Worcester, Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester and Worcester College Corps.