Dr. Jarrett is a Research Assistant Professor in the WVU School of Public Health Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is a faculty member within the West Virginia Prevention Research Center and housed at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. She serves as the lead evaluator for When all are counted: Closing the health surveillance gap in WV and as evaluation lead and consultant with state and local partners across West Virgina. Her research interests include evaluation, community development and social action, community-engaged research, social capital development and access among young adults, health and social disparities in rural populations, systems and organizational development, social networking, and improvement science as it relates to health access and outcomes in primary care clinical settings.
Traci Jarret is a 2022 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Community Research for Health Equity program, managed by AcademyHealth.