About
I am a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Michigan. My methodological areas include chronic disease epidemiology, demography, Bayesian inference, and mixed-methods. I am interested in how non-communicable disease onset and severity over the life course is shaped by mechanisms of social, economic, and spatial inequality.
As a graduate student trainee in demography at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center, I utilize large survey datasets to measure and compare the number of years that women spend intensively mothering (carrying and caring for young children) on a global scale.
Prior to coming to Michigan, I received my MPH from Yale University, where I was trained in epidemiological methods and investigated how non-communicable disease morbidity is affected by climate change using a mixed-method design. I received my undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I was born, raised, and (primarly) educated in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.
