She can speak on health policy, public health infrastructure and computer modeling of disease. Her work models effects of the entire environment including climate, weather, pollution, health care infrastructure and social deprivation on the development of obesity, cardiovascular diseases and poor health outcomes. She also models the early-life growth patterns and the development of diseases in infancy that affect later-life health. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in biochemistry/toxicology and her doctorate in public administration and health policy. She completed post-doctoral work at Case Western Reserve University as a program director for a National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities grant.