She earned her PhD (Epidemiology) and MPH (Sociomedical Sciences) from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and was a W. K. Kellogg Postdoctoral Scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before joining the University of Maryland, Dr. White was on the faculty at the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her research broadly focuses on racial/ethnic segregation and discrimination on health and the social determinants of cardiometabolic risk factors control and management with an emphasis on healthy aging among middle-aged and older adults.