Our Researchers

Dr. Wilkinson is a health disparities researcher with expertise in mixed methods research and populations marginalized due to medical mistrust and low health literacy.

Dr. Ward’s research aims to understand the effects of stress, trauma, and sexual violence on perinatal health and develop strategies to reduce risk and promote well-being during the perinatal period.

Dr. Huffhines’ research focuses on the impact of intergenerational trauma and contextual stress on parenting and young children’s mental and physical health.

Dr. Olson’s research focuses on weight-related health with an emphasis on behavioral interventions to promote well-being among individuals of higher body weight.

Dr. Sokol’s research focuses on modifiable factors contributing to inequities in the consequences associated with substance use across the life course and intergenerationally, as well as on topics related to reproductive justice.

Dr. Vargas applies mixed (qualitative and quantitative) and community-based participatory research methods to the development of assessment tools and interventions. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health behaviors in military and civilian populations, as well as quality of life among individuals with chronic illness.

Dr. Roxbury’s research focuses on the development of wearable sensing textiles with encapsulated nanosensors for the detection of wound and stress biomarkers.

Dr. Rojo-Wissar’s research examines the relationship between early life adversity, parent-child bonding, sleep, and health across the lifespan. She hopes her research will lead to community-based interventions that support families with young children.

Dr. Lee’s research is focused on biobehavioral mechanisms that link trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder with cardiovascular disease risk.

Dr. Goldstein’s research program aims to optimize digital health for prevention, secondary prevention, and interventions for cardiovascular disease and other complex medical conditions.

Dr. Gathright’s research aims to develop secondary prevention interventions for older adults with cardiac disease by investigating psychosocial and behavioral factors.

Dr. Daniels’ research program focuses on epigenetics of early life stress, including inflammatory and metabolic biomarkers.