Kathryn Derose
Professor of Community Health Education
Kathryn Derose's work focuses on understanding and addressing health inequalities, and she has particular expertise regarding social determinants of health, faith-based organizations, community-based participatory research, immigrants' healthcare access, Latino populations, and Latin America.
Daniel López-Cevallos
Associate Professor of Community Health Education
Daniel López-Cevallos works on the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, class, migration, and other socioeconomic and sociocultural constructs, and their relationship to health and educational issues. Furthermore, he is invested in the development and implementation of community, institutional, and policy-level strategies to better serve Latinx and other marginalized communities in the United States and Latin America.
Airín Martínez
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management
Airín Martínez examines the sociopolitical and institutional arrangements that produce chronic disease disparities among Latinx immigrants and their US-born children. Dr. Martinez’s research examines how the local implementation of immigration enforcement policies creates material deprivation and psychosocial stress among Latinx mixed-status families with at least one unauthorized immigrant.
Linnea Evans
Assistant Professor of Community Health Education
Linnea Evans is a mixed-methods researcher whose research broadly examines social exclusion processes that link racial and ethnic minoritized groups to disadvantaged health, particularly through pathways that affect the body’s physiological stress response system. Her work largely focuses on Black Americans, particularly in adolescence and young adulthood.