She studies racial and ethnic and socioeconomic disparities, translational research and cultural and linguistic competence. Dr. Collins holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master's degree from the University of Michigan. She also received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012. Her work has been recognized with a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research award, as well as a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow Award, among others.