Kristin Harkins, Author at University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center

Kristin Harkins, Research Coordinator; Cognitive Aging Communication

Kristin Harkins is Research Coordinator on the UPenn PRC Cognitive Aging Communication Project. She is also a Research Coordinator at the Penn Memory Center of the University of Pennsylvania and a student in Master's of Public Health Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Q & A Spotlight

Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, Core Co-Lead
What are the goals of your research?
I am a social epidemiologist by training; much of my work is focused on urban health disparities. I am very interested in how health is affected by where we live, so I am intrigued by such questions as “Why do certain neighborhoods have much higher rates of infant mortality than others just a few miles away?” These topics not only interest me in an epidemiological sense, but also in an equity sense: why do such disparities exist in a country, such as the US, that has such a great amount of wealth and resources? The overarching theme of my work is to investigate how our material conditions impact our well-being.