RURAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER - Key Persons

Alexandria Kristensen Cabrera is a graduate student working on rural maternity care projects with the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center. She is also an MD-PhD candidate in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration.

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• New Investigator

Dr. Alexis Swendener is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Rural Health Equity Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Swendener is a sociologist with expertise on how social inequalities shaped by gender, family, and work influence health within varied and often understudied social contexts. She has studied these domains primarily within rural and farming families. One stream of her research focuses on how couples balance jobs, farm work, and family/carework as well as how they feel about their labor in these roles-and how this in turn impacts their health and relationships. Within other social contexts, her work extends our understanding of sources of health disparities among marginalized and underserved families including sexual and gender minorities, racial and ethnic minorities, and those at intersections of these groups. Dr. Swendener graduated with her PhD in sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2018, and grew up on a ranch in rural western Nebraska.

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• Obstetrician

Dr. Lindsay Admon is an obstetrician-gynecologist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan's Institute of Healthcare Policy and Innovation. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan. Education MS, Health and Healthcare Research, National Clinician Scholars Program, University of Michigan, 2018 Residency, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, 2016 MD, University of Michigan Medical School, 2012 BA, Public Health Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2008 Experience Dr. Admon's applies her interdisciplinary training in obstetrics, health services research, and public health to study policy relevant-issues for the childbearing population. Her overarching goal is to advance maternal health equity through rigorous health policy evaluation. Dr. Admon's clinical practice is based in Flint, MI. Research Interests

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• Research Assistant With the University of Minnesota

Julia Interrante is a graduate research assistant with the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center and a Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration Ph.D. student in the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She began working at the RHRC in August 2018. Education MPH, Epidemiology, Emory University, 2014 BA, Studies in Women and Gender, Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 2009 Experience Prior to coming to the RHRC, Ms. Interrante worked as an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a variety of areas including birth defect research, maternal medication use, and fertility, as well as domestic and global tuberculosis and HIV surveillance and prevention. While working at the CDC, Ms. Interrante developed data quality assessment protocols and tools, conducted data use trainings, and provided policy guidance and technical assistance to foreign Ministries of Health and domestic Departments of Health. She also worked as an HIV tester and counselor in Washington, DC and in rural South Africa. Research Interests