Sara Shuman, PhD, MPH

Sara Shuman is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at Northern Arizona University. Her training in public health is broadly focused on social and behavioral aspects of health and health equity. She has over 10-years of community-based experience in public health program planning and evaluation. Her current community-based service and research focuses improving health equity for displaced populations including immigrant, refugee, unsheltered, and incarcerated people.

Dr. Shuman completed the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Training in 2017 and was a Community-Engaged Fellow with Campus Compact in 2019-2020. She has ten years of experience teaching university-level public health courses with undergraduate and graduate students. She has a Masters in Public Health (Focus: International Family and Child Health) from the University of Arizona and a PhD in Public Health (Focus: Social and Behavioral Health) from Temple University.