Dr. Andrea L Kalfoglou
Associate Professor · Tenured
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health School of Public Policy
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Joined UMBC faculty in 2007. Previously a researcher at NHGRI, Johns Hopkins, IOM, and President's National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Expert in health disparities and social determinants of health; reproductive and genetics ethics; social and ethical issues related to mental health; childhood sexual abuse; and campus food insecurity. Has served in multiple leadership positions with national public health and bioethics organizations.Research interests
Mental health policy, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as a social determinant of health, campus food insecurity; maternal mental health; reproductive health policy; genetics policy; ethics education at the undergraduate levelTeaching interests
public health ethics; social justice and advocacy; social determinants of health and health disparitiesEducation
- Postdoc, public health genetics — National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH (2007)
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Ph D, Public Health
— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (1999) The Experiences of Oocyte Donors
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BA, Political and Social Thought
— University of Virginia (1991) The Legal, Social and Ethical Implications of Surrogate Motherhood