I work at the interface of public health and human ecology to advance quality of life and environmental sustainability worldwide. My community-engaged teaching, outreach, and scholarship focus on the health and well-being of women and children around the world.
I lead Global Health and Human Ecology at the School of Human Ecology and serve as the director of the campus-wide 4W Women and Wellbeing Initiative, which has catalyzed a range of innovative programs that address gender-based inequality and injustice. I am also a co-chair for UW’s UniverCity Alliance, where we collaborate to address complex challenges in urban-centered systems within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
As an associate director for the UW Global Health Institute from 2010-2022, I led the design and implementation of global health education programs for both health science students and undergraduates. I am the lead author and editor of Foundations for Global Health Practice (Wiley 2018), a text that articulates a local to global vision of health that goes beyond healthcare systems, to include topics such as human rights, global mental health, water and sanitation, food systems, climate change and urban health.
