Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH

Yale University
School of Public Health, Community Alliance for Research and Engagement
135 College Street
Suite 356
New Haven CTUSA
06510

Biographical Sketch:
Yale University School of Public Health Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and Community Alliance for Research and Engagement Dr. Amy Carroll-Scott is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of low-income, minority, and immigrant communities, particularly the role of neighborhood-level sociodemographic characteristics and conditions in explaining health disparities. Prior to joining Yale in September, 2008, Amy received her doctoral degree from the UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, where she was a Chancellor's Fellow and a trainee of the California Center for Population Research. While at UCLA, Amy directed the Data & Democracy Statewide Training Initiative at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, which provides free courses in basic research skills and needs assessment methodology for community leaders in underserved communities. Amy is also the Chair-Elect of the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section of APHA. Today’s presentation comes from her dissertation, which explored the relationships between neighborhood structural characteristics, neighborhood-level social processes (e.g., social capital and collective efficacy), and child health and behavioral outcomes, comparing survey samples from Los Angeles and Chicago.