UMass Boston

Collaboratory Director / Principal Investigator

Ana Cristina Terra de Souza Lindsay, DrPH, DDS, MPH

Professor, Department of Urban Public Health

Dr. Lindsay is a community-based public health researcher trained in pediatric dentistry and maternal and child health. Her public health research program and scholarship focus on achieving health equity through understanding and reducing disparities in health. Her primary program of research focuses on improving lifestyle behaviors and preventing obesity during the critical early life stages of pregnancy and early childhood. Her secondary program of research focuses on the application of mixed methods to address cancer health disparities among Latin American populations and more recently Cape Verdean populations with a special emphasis on the prevention of HPV-associated cancers.