People

Collaboratory Director / Principal Investigator

Ana Cristina Terra de Souza Lindsay, DrPH, DDS, MPH

Professor, Department of Exercise & Health Sciences

Dr. Lindsay is a community-based public health researcher trained in pediatric dentistry and maternal and child health. Her public health research program and scholarship focus on achieving health equity through understanding and reducing disparities in health. Her primary program of research focuses on improving lifestyle behaviors and preventing obesity during the critical early life stages of pregnancy and early childhood. Her secondary program of research focuses on the application of mixed methods to address cancer health disparities among Latin American populations and more recently Cape Verdean populations with a special emphasis on the prevention of HPV-associated cancers.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

	Nachalie Rodriguez Cruz Department of Exercise and Health Sciences		Axel Hernandez Department of Biology
	Jackelyne Abranches		Pamella Reis
	Samuel Ortega

Research Associates

	Virginia Moreno Arango Department of Exercise and Health Sciences
	Doris Lucero Department of Biology
	Aysha Pires
	Celestina Antunes
	Oriana Barros
	João Pereira
	Madelyne Valdez