The Center for Health Equity Research and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative are proud to welcome our two newest faculty members — Dr. Linnea Evans (left) and Dr. Amanda Pollitt.
We look forward to the seeing all they will accomplish and the fresh perspectives they will bring to our growing team!
Evans’ research examines social exclusion processes that link racial and ethnic minoritized groups to disadvantaged health through pathways that affect the body’s physiological stress response system.
Evans earned her doctorate in health education and health behavior at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and an affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology.
Pollitt’s research focuses on understanding how gender, sexuality and family provide contexts for stigma in the lives of LGBT people and how this stigma influences health.
Pollitt earned her doctorate in family studies and human development from the University of Arizona and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin where she conducted research on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender mental and physical health.
Welcome!