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I am Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Health Programs with an emphasis in Community and Population Health Sciences. My research has a strong record of conducting translational health services research addressing outcomes at the intersection of clinical care and community health. Most of my work addresses community and population health and health disparities related to socio-economic status and race/ethnicity across the lifespan. As Director and scientist of the Center for Urban Population Health (2003-2015), I was uniquely poised to advance research and policy and systems improvement in communities of need particularly addressing health disparities due to social, cultural, racial and economic inequities. This center collaborated on major citywide, region and state-wide initiatives involving teen pregnancy reduction, cancer prevention, dementia and healthy aging, and healthy birth outcomes and the general health determinants and outcomes in our state’s largest urban areas. As professor of health informatics and administration (2003–2018), I had particular expertise in the innovative application of assessment and information technologies (clinical outcomes, web-based technologies) to develop data management strategies and integration of databases for clinical use and assessing outcomes, population health management, systems analyses and population health surveillance and tracking. With our Health Outcomes and Patient Engagement (HOPE) initiative (2015-2020), my research has also focused on secondary intervention with patients seen for issues including mental health, obesity and metabolic syndrome who are at rising risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other chronic health conditions; this work is in a variety of settings including hospital- and community-based clinics as well as employee health programs. My current interests involves screening and assessing resiliency services for children and families experiencing trauma and chronic mental health conditions with the Resiliency Center for Families and Children.