I am an Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy & Management in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M  University.

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I also recently graduated from the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program, a national leadership development program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to equip teams of researchers and community partners in applying research to solve real community problems. I was also part of the inaugural cohort of the American Enterprise Institute's Emerging Poverty Scholars program.

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Prior to my current appointment, I served as an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Penn State and an Assistant Professor in the Rockefeller School of Policy & Politics at West Virginia University. I also worked for more than two years as a project manager at Fresno Healthy Communities Access Partners, where his focus was on systemic health policy change, the implementation of telemedicine projects, farm worker health care, and access to care. I also worked for The Maddy Institute for Public Policy and Central California Legal Services. In addition, I served  in several political offices including those of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, Congressman Dennis Cardoza, California State Senator Dean Florez, and Member of the German Bundestag Josef Göppel. 

 

I am a proud graduate of the College of the Desert, California State University, Fresno, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I received an M.A. in International Relations (2007) and a Master’s in Public Administration (2010) as well as a Bachelor’s in Political Science (2006) from California State University, Fresno. I also received a Master's in Political Science (2011) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Applied and Agricultural Economics (2016). In the past, I have been a Carl Albert Congressional Graduate Fellow, a Jim Costa Scholar, and a Dean's Medalists. I am also the recipient of the MPSA Harrell Rodgers Graduate Scholarship, the Phyllis Watts Eudy Award, the Dan Quigley Graduate Studies Scholarship, and the Harlan Hagan Memorial Scholarship. [add] 

 

I can be reached at sfh5482@psu.edu.   

 

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