Research Staff

Colleen Barrett is a research associate II at the Alcohol Research Group. She received her B.S. in Community Health Science and MPH at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has supported numerous projects at the Nevada Public Health Training Center through data management optimization and statistical reporting allowing organizations to expand their opportunities for grant funding and project development. For the past two years, she worked as an Epidemiologist at the local level serving as the lead … [Read more...]

Joanne Delk, MS, is a research associate IV with a Master’s degree in Nutrition from the University of Minnesota. She has experience as a project coordinator on large-scale studies focusing on child and adolescent health (nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco). She was the project coordinator for the Texas Adolescent Tobacco and Marketing Surveillance System (TATAMS), recruiting and following 4,000 Texas youth for four years to generate data for the FDA on youth tobacco behaviors and … [Read more...]

Adrienne Faxio, BA, is a research associate III with a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She honed her social science research skills at the University of California, San Francisco’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) where she worked for nearly 15 years managing evaluation and research projects addressing adolescent health, school health services, and behavioral and … [Read more...]

Jayla Burton, MPH, MS is a research associate II at the Alcohol Research Group. She received her undergraduate degree in health science at the University of Cincinnati and her MPH and MS from the University of San Francisco. She has a passion for advocating for systems change to reducing health disparities especially among historically underrepresented populations through national advocacy and education campaigns. For the past few years she has worked in the arena of women’s health, specifically … [Read more...]

Edwina Williams, MPH, is a research associate III with a Master’s degree in Public Health from Brown University. She has experience in collecting and analyzing state-level data on beverage-specific alcohol taxes using individual state revenue reports and the Alcohol Policy Information System from her work with Senior Scientist Bill Kerr. Edwina is also experienced in disparities research through her research on socioeconomic status and alcohol outlet density as indicators for increased risk of … [Read more...]