She has research interests in community-based interventions, public health nutrition, theories of behavior change, and obesity prevention. Current research projects include a pilot study to develop a six-month intervention for African American women that focuses primarily on civic engagement and secondarily on classic nutrition education, hypothesizing that women will improve their own health outcomes as they work together to create more systemic, community-level change. She is also co-Principal Investigator on a qualitative study, supported by a Tufts Collaborates seed grant, to examine African American women’s perspectives on how diet and physical activity behaviors and cardiovascular disease risk are affected by cultural and psychosocial processes, historical and social contexts, and physical and economic environments.