Research Interests

• Applied biocultural, medical anthropology
• Decolonizing anthropology
• Syndemic Theory
• Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Latin America
• Maternal and infant health with an emphasis on timing of delivery
• Developmental origins of health and disease and stress during the childbearing year
• Alternative models of maternity/reproductive health care
• Birth workers (doulas and midwives) and their capacity for improving health outcomes for the under/unjustly-served
• Social justice and community engaged research (CEnR)
• Health Systems Reform