The network, housed at UMB, is built on the belief that interventions designed to eliminate health inequities in other countries may also work in U.S. communities.
The executive director of the Center for Violence Prevention has focused her research on the social factors that lead communities into risky behaviors that lead to chronic disease, injury, and violence.
The center will connect the numerous research and clinical programs at UMB that address violence and the social determinants of health related to trauma.
The Oral Health for Underserved Uninsured Children program offers services including examinations, preventive care, and comprehensive restorative care.
The program helps to fill gaps in community health care made more evident during the pandemic and provides a hands-on clinical experience for nursing students.
As chief of surgery at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and director of the Breast Health Center there at Brown University, she typically does about 200 surgeries a year.