I am an Assistant Professor with the Center for Humanitarian Health, Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I am also the Leon S Robertson Faculty Development Chair in Injury Prevention. I came to Johns Hopkins from the International Rescue Committee, where I worked for a decade and most recently served as its Research Director.

I am a social epidemiologist who uses mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to better understand how to prevent and respond to violence against women, children, and other marginalized populations. As a humanitarian researcher, I also aim to improve measurement, evaluation, and implementation science approaches to advance rigor, ethics, and equity of research in the most challenging settings. I have conducted research in a range of humanitarian settings from Raqqa Governorate, Syria to communities in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to refugee camps in Ethiopia.

I received my Doctor of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health, Master of Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and completed postdoctoral training at the Yale School of Public Health.