People

Director

Julie Armin

Julie Armin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Research Scholar Track)
Assistant Professor of Practice, Health Promotion Sciences
Director, Health Disparities Curriculum, College of Medicine – Tucson
jarmin@email.arizona.edu
Lela Williams

Lela Williams PhD

Associate Professor, Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson
Associate Director, Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson
Faculty Affiliate and Investigator, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center
Faculty Affiliate, University of Arizona Family Studies and Human Development
lrw@asu.edu
Nina Almodova

Nina Almodova

FRONTERA Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Skyelynn Bermudez

Skyelynn (Skye) Bermudez

BLAISER Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Psychological Science with Minors in Public Health and Pre-Health
Kristi Ho

Kristi Ho

STEP UP Summer Research Intern, 2021
Brandeis University Undergraduate Student, Psychology and Health: Science, Society, & Policy with Minor in Social Justice & Social Policy
Abi Ilavarasan

Abi Ilavarasan

Step UP Summer Research Intern
MPH Student, Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
Valerie LaBuda

Valerie LaBuda

KEYS Summer Research Intern, 2021
Paradise Valley High School Student, CREST Program with Bioscience concentration
Manasi Palle

Manasi Palle

STEP-UP Summer Research Intern, 2021
The College of New Jersey Undergraduate Student - Public Health
Gabriel Tsai

Gabriel Tsai

BLAISER Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Physiology with Spanish Minor

Staff

Julie Armin

Julie Armin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Research Scholar Track)
Assistant Professor of Practice, Health Promotion Sciences
Director, Health Disparities Curriculum, College of Medicine – Tucson
jarmin@email.arizona.edu
Lela Williams

Lela Williams PhD

Associate Professor, Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson
Associate Director, Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson
Faculty Affiliate and Investigator, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center
Faculty Affiliate, University of Arizona Family Studies and Human Development
lrw@asu.edu
Nina Almodova

Nina Almodova

FRONTERA Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Skyelynn Bermudez

Skyelynn (Skye) Bermudez

BLAISER Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Psychological Science with Minors in Public Health and Pre-Health
Kristi Ho

Kristi Ho

STEP UP Summer Research Intern, 2021
Brandeis University Undergraduate Student, Psychology and Health: Science, Society, & Policy with Minor in Social Justice & Social Policy
Abi Ilavarasan

Abi Ilavarasan

Step UP Summer Research Intern
MPH Student, Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
Valerie LaBuda

Valerie LaBuda

KEYS Summer Research Intern, 2021
Paradise Valley High School Student, CREST Program with Bioscience concentration
Alexis Ortega

Alexis Ortega

Summer Research Intern
MPH Student, Epidemiology, Columbia University
Manasi Palle

Manasi Palle

STEP-UP Summer Research Intern, 2021
The College of New Jersey Undergraduate Student - Public Health
Gabriel Tsai

Gabriel Tsai

BLAISER Summer Research Intern, 2021
UArizona Undergraduate Student, Physiology with Spanish Minor
Intern_Abigail Martinez

Abigail Martinez

Lead Research Assistant, The aUroRA Study, The SOAR Project, The ORCHID Study