She studies the intersection between race, place, socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease risk factors. She examines the role of the social and physical environment in African American health across the socioeconomic spectrum and utilizes geographic informational systems and spatial statistics to do so. Dr. Bell received her PhD from the Department of Health, Behavior & Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed a postdoctoral appointment in community-based participatory research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.