Dr. Osborn received an MA and PhD in social/health psychology and a graduate certificate in quantitative research methods from the University of Connecticut. She was a health-services research fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she also completed a master’s degree in public health. Her research focuses on understanding population-specific determinants of health-behavior change and on testing frameworks to inform the design and content of tailored health-promotion interventions for chronically ill patients.