About
I am a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Michigan. My research interests include social determinants of health, chronic disease epidemiology, social epidemiology, Bayesian inference, and mixed-methods approaches. Currently, I study how chronic health outcomes are shaped by mechanisms of social and economic inequality experienced throughout the lifecourse.
Prior to coming to Michigan, I received my MPH from Yale University, where I investigated how non-communicable disease morbidity is affected by climate change, as well as how climate change policy approaches and prioritization of climate policies differ between state structures. I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. My undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
