I am a social epidemiologist with over 5 years of experience in research, consultation, and undergraduate and graduate-level teaching in sociology and social epidemiology in Canada and the USA, specializing in social determinants of health and health system research. 

Broadly, my research interests center on the stress process, aging and the life course, social determinants of health, and intersectionality and population health. My current research, supported by the CIHR grants and Shoppers Drug Mart research fellowship, focuses on two lines of work: 1) understanding various psychosocial, physiological dysregulation, and behavioral pathways through which neighbourhood deprivation affects changes in cognitive function among middle-aged and older Canadians, and 2) examining how socioeconomic inequalities intersect in predicting polypharmacy in middle-aged and older Canadians with multimorbidity. A central goal of my past and ongoing research has been to improve population health in the context of life course stressors and protective psycho-social environment.

I am also committed to teaching and training the next generation of citizens and scholars. My teaching philosophy revolves around developing and nurturing critical thinking skills in an active learning environment and providing an open forum to discuss relevant issues. I strongly value students' situated knowledge, diverse perspectives, and socioeconomic and ethnic diversity as valuable resources through which we can understand sociological concepts and theories. 

I was a CIHR and Killam Scholar at Dalhousie University and a past Fulbright Scholar at Iowa State University. In addition, I am serving on the editorial board of BMC Public Health - an open-access and peer-reviewed journal.