Dr. Ricky Camplain
Assistant Professor
Research focus: Cardiovascular and chronic disease, physical inactivity and sedentary behavior, minority and rural population health, community-based participatory research, outcomes research, policy-based research, built environment, and social justice
Additional information
Background Accordion Closed
Dr. Camplain is an epidemiologist interested in quantitative methodology. Her research has focused on hospitalized and non-hospitalized heart failure in the community, specifically among Medicare patients, administrative claims, and physical activity and sedentary behaviors among Hispanic/Latinos and Native Americans. She has an interest in the how policy and the built environment can promote healthy behavior as well as a passion for social justice. Other research projects have included smoking, smoking cessation, and arterial stiffness measured by pulse wave velocity.
Current projects Accordion Closed
Dr. Camplain is currently working at NAU on behavioral health, infectious disease, and chronic illness in jail populations.