Maura Dugan serves as a Senior Research Associate at AcademyHealth, where she supports various health equity centered programs. Her work encompasses a range of topics, including reproductive health equity and community-centered research and grantmaking processes. She supports programmatic and grantmaking activities for Research in Transforming Health and Health Care Systems and Community Research for Health Equity supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. These research portfolios aim to generate evidence to make the U.S. healthcare system more equitable and responsive to people’s goals and needs. 

Prior to joining AcademyHealth, Maura worked as a Research Assistant at The University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health where she investigated racial disparities in pregnancy and postpartum health outcomes, including postpartum weight retention, cardiometabolic risk, and the interplay of contextual, environmental, behavioral and psychosocial factors. Maura graduated from Muhlenberg College with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Public Health and received her M.P.H. at George Washington University.

Authored by Maura Dugan, M.P.H.

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Walking Two Worlds - Indigenous Health Equity and the Need for Representation in Health Care: An Interview with Arizona State University

In the fourth of a series of interviews with our Community Research for Health Equity grantees, AcademyHealth interviews Kristin Payestewa from Arizona State University to learn more about their project goals and findings during National Native American Heritage Month.
Posted By Maura Dugan, M.P.H.
Topics Health Equity Building Healthy Communities