"I am an Assistant Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health at The Pennsylvania State University.  As a Rural Sociologist and Demographer, I study rural population health, spatial inequality, and the social determinants of health.  I use spatial and multi-level analyses of secondary data to determine how place shapes health and well-being differently across groups of people. My research has been published in Public Policy and Aging Report, Population Research and Policy Review, Social Science Medicine – Population Health, and Society and Natural Resources and as research briefs at the Carsey School of Public Policy (University of New Hampshire) and the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion."