Department of Epidemiology

Alexandra Skinner, MPH is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology. Her research interests apply epidemiologic methods to evaluate how housing and social policies shape overdose risk. Alex's work supports collaborations between the People, Place & Health Collective and Rhode Island Department of Health to target overdose prevention efforts in the state to neighborhoods predicted to experience elevated overdose mortality. Prior to joining Brown's PhD program, Alex was a research fellow at Boston University School of Public Health, where her work focused on policy drivers of population health and health equity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and in terms of access to HIV care for adolescents. She holds two degrees from Boston University: a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology & Biostatistics and a Bachelor of Science in Health Science.