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Deshira Wallace: Stress and sugar: Exploring the role of psychosocial stress on diabetes care in rural Dominican Republic
February 11, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
On February 11, 2021, Deshira Wallace,an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, will present “Stress and sugar: Exploring the role of psychosocial stress on diabetes care in rural Dominican Republic” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Dr. Deshira Wallace is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Her research is focused on examining the effects of structural and psychosocial stressors on cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes prevention and management among US Latines and in Latin America. Further, she uses an intersectionality framework to examine risk factors, coping behaviors, and chronic health outcomes, particularly among Latines and Latin Americans of African descent in an aim to further unpack health inequities within the Latine and Latin American population.
She works at the intersection of health sciences, social sciences, and the humanities to not only highlight health disparities, but to also critically examine how these disparities and inequities came about.