Dara Mendez, MPH, PhD

University of Pittsburgh
Center for Minority Health
127A Parran Hall, DeSoto Street
Pittsburgh PAUSA
15261

Biographical Sketch: Dara D. Mendez, PhD, MPH Dara Mendez is a Kellogg Health Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Maternal and Child Health with a specialization in Perinatal and Social Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health in August 2009. She obtained her MPH in Maternal and Child Health from UNC and her BA in Sociology/Anthropology Pre-Med from Spelman College. Her primary research interests include understanding the social and contextual factors influencing pregnancy and birth and how these factors contribute to existing racial/ethnic health disparities in the US. Her additional research interests include examining neighborhood context and health, community-based participatory research techniques and the effects of slavery on current health disparities in the US. Dara currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Women’s Health Network.