about

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Systems, Management & Policy at the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. I study the public systems we have in place to protect and serve children and families—how they operate, whether they are effective, and where they fail. I am particularly interested in the public health surveillance of child maltreatment, child protection systems, and family violence prevention. I aim for my research to inform public policy change that improves the safety and health of children, mothers, and their families.   

I am a research affiliate of the CU Injury and Violence Prevention Center, the CU Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, and the Children's Data Network. I also serve as the Academic Leadership Counsel Liaison between the School of Public Health and the CU Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities. My work has been published in American Journal of Epidemiology, The Lancet, Child Abuse & Neglect, Journal of Family Violence, and elsewhere. My full publications list is available on Google Scholar. 

I hold a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. I completed my MPH in Global Health (Health Metrics) at the University of Washington, funded by a three-year data science fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). I attended Colorado College and graduated with distinction in Neuroscience, minoring in Bioethics.