Research
My research asks how alcohol use, place, and social disadvantage shape chronic disease and mortality — and how modern statistical and machine-learning methods can sharpen those answers for policy.
A body map of my work: the behaviors I study as drivers, and the health outcomes I've published on — with regions I plan to reach as the work grows toward whole-body effects. Click a region.
Alcohol epidemiology across the life course
Drinking trajectories from adolescence into midlife and their links to hypertension, cardiovascular risk, and mortality — using NHIS, BRFSS, Add Health, and the Millennium Cohort Study.
Social determinants & place
How neighborhood cohesion, length of residence, and historical redlining pattern health and health behaviors — and how those patterns differ by race, ethnicity, and sex.
Machine learning for population health
Predictive models for cognition and cardiovascular risk in early midlife, and reproducible, open pipelines for harmonizing large public-health surveys.
A complete record of funded, submitted, and in-preparation grants is in my CV.