Mercedes Bravo
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Associate Director for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, Duke Global Health Institute
Appointment:
Mercedes Bravo
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Associate Director for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, Duke Global Health Institute
Dr. Mercedes Bravo received her PhD from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Bravo’s research focuses on identifying and characterizing relationships between social and environmental exposures and disparities in health and developmental outcomes. She is particularly interested in promoting health equity through better characterization of disparities in exposures and disparities in health outcomes, especially for underserved, underrepresented, and potentially vulnerable populations. Prior to joining DGHI, Dr. Bravo worked at RTI International and the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) and Statistics Department at Rice University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In her role as DGHI's associate director for equity, inclusion and diversity, Dr. Bravo advises DGHI senior leadership on strategies to advance EID across the institute and serves as co-lead of the DGHI Equity Implementation Team, which oversees evaluation and implementation of recommendations from the 2021 DGHI Equity Task Force report.
Publications
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Deziel NC, Warren JL, Bravo MA, Macalintal F, Kimbro RT, Bell ML. Assessing community-level exposure to social vulnerability and isolation: spatial patterning and urban-rural differences. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 2023 Mar;33(2):198–206.Bravo MA, Fang F, Hancock DB, Johnson EO, Harris KM. Long-term air pollution exposure and markers of cardiometabolic health in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) Study. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 2022.Fang B, Bravo MA, Wang H, Sheng L, Wu W, Zhou Y, et al. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are associated with later puberty in girls: A longitudinal study. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Nov 10;846:157497.Zhou S, Griffin RJ, Bui A, Lilienfeld Asbun A, Bravo MA, Osgood C, et al. Disparities in air quality downscaler model uncertainty across socioeconomic and demographic indicators in North Carolina. Environmental Research. 2022 Sep;212(Pt C):113418.
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