Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH

Yale University
School of Public Health, Community Alliance for Research and Engagement
135 College Street
Suite 200
New Haven, CT
USA 06510

Biographical Sketch: Yale University School of Public Health Community Alliance for Research and Engagement Amy Carroll-Scott is an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Public Health, with CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement. Her work at Yale focuses on the health status of New Haven residents – particularly the social, economic, and spatial determinants of health, and the impact of community- and school-based obesity and chronic disease prevention interventions. Prior to joining Yale in September 2008, Amy received her doctoral degree from the UCLA School of Public Health, where she was a Chancellor's Fellow and a Demography trainee of the California Center for Population Research. Dr. Carroll-Scott is the Chair of the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section of APHA.

Papers:
3340.0 Community-research partnerships: Importance of research capacity to address research skill-related power differentials 3340.0 Multi-level challenges of creating and sustaining community-engaged university researchers in community-university relationships 3340.0 Race, power, and privilege in the community-academic research relationship: Perspectives of community scholars engaged in academic research partnerships 4376.0 School connectedness and BMI among pre-adolescent students: The influence of neighborhood concentrated affluence