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I am a Behavioral Epidemiologist with research expertise in health disparities and preventive healthcare utilization among immigrants, racial/ethnic minorities, and the medically underserved. I am particularly interested in the intersection of nativity, race/ethnicity, and cervical cancer. Much of my work focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of behavioral and health system interventions to address cancer health disparities among the medically underserved. My current research involves evaluating the effectiveness and implementation of mailed self-collected human papillomavirus (HPV) testing kits for cervical cancer screening; and multi-level health system and community-based interventions to improve HPV vaccination, e-cigarette prevention, and cervical and colorectal cancer screening.

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