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Leigh Ann Simmons is a Professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis and co-director of the Perinatal Origins Disparities (POD) Center at UC Davis. Her research, funded by institutions such as the NIH, USDA, and Veterans Health Administration, focuses on promoting population health equity and addressing the incidence and prevalence of common chronic diseases like obesity, depression, and cardiovascular disorders, with a specific emphasis on childbearing women, rural residents, and underrepresented minorities. Simmons has published extensively and presented her work nationally and internationally, with core scholarship areas including the characterization of co-occurring chronic disease risk factors in specific populations, understanding the impact of early life exposures on life chronic disease risk, and developing innovative remote delivery models to facilitate personalized behavioral change interventions. She earned her Doctorate in Philosophy in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia, a Master's degree in Couple and Family Therapy from MCP-Hahnemann University, and a Bachelor's degree in Literature and Writing from UC San Diego. Simmons has also served as a Health Disparities Scholar at NIH and as a congressional fellow for the Senate Health Education Labor Pensions Committee.
University of California, Davis • Davis, CA
Research and teaching in the area of nursing, with a focus on health disparities and chronic disease prevention.
NIH Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities • Bethesda, MD
Engaged in research related to health disparities.
Senate Health Education Labor Pensions Committee • Washington, D.C.
Worked with the committee under late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Department of Computer Science. GRE is NOT required.