Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

For her Ph.D. from VCU’s School of Population Health, she explored bias, fear and other factors in her birth city of Baltimore. By Amelia Heymann Trauma is a big reason why many people aren’t getting proper dental care, and Briona Phillips brings a lifelong perspective to the issue. The Baltimore native earned her Ph.D. in social and […]

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences alumna and affiliate faculty member, Jeanine Guidry, says improving our understanding of why people may or may not vaccinate remains ‘of great importance.’ By VCU News staff Jeanine Guidry, Ph.D., an affiliate faculty member at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Population Health and at the Richard T. […]

This Women’s History Month we’re featuring outstanding SBS alumnae, women in leadership roles, and students and faculty conducting research focused on improving women’s health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Brown graduated from the Social and Behavioral Sciences Ph.D. program in 2020. She is currently Assistant Professor at Drexel University’s College of […]

VCU Alumni’s 10 Under 10 awards program recognizes the noteworthy and distinctive achievements made by alumni who earned their first VCU degree (undergraduate, graduate or professional) within the past 10 years.  Assistant professor, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions Kristal Lyn Brown, Ph.D. (Ph.D.’20), discovered her path studying health disparities in obesity treatment when […]

Dr. Kristal Brown, fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine, was selected to be a 2021 Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The goal of the Health Disparities Research Institute is to provide participants with a broad overview of the leading issues facing minority health and health disparities research […]