Dr. Reed is a postdoctoral fellow with the Behavioral Economics to Transform Trial Enrollment Representativeness (BETTER) Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  As a nurse, she has worked with a myriad of vulnerable populations with infectious/chronic conditions to provide nutrition, social support, housing services, and preventive care services to improve health outcomes, well-being, and quality of life.  Additionally, she has performed advocacy work, program evaluation, and quantitative research in maternal health. As an emerging public health leader, Dr. Reed strives to have a program of research that reduces infectious/chronic conditions among underserved women by designing and testing interventions that address neighborhood, social, structural, and biopsychosocial factors across the life course.