Lori Carter-Edwards
Director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Division of Community Health in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke
B.A. University of Notre Dame
M.P.H. UCLA School of Public Health
Ph.D.
University of North Carolina
Lori Carter-Edwards, Ph.D. is the Director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Division of Community Health in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke. She is also a member of the Liaison Team in the Duke Center for Community Research in the Duke Translational Medicine Institute. Dr. Carter-Edwards received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame in 1987, an M.P.H. in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from the UCLA School of Public Health in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health in 1995. She completed her postdoctoral training in clinical epidemiology from 1995-1997 at the Duke Hypertension Center in the Duke University Medical Center as a recipient of a Minority Postdoctoral Research Supplement sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Her research interests and expertise are in the area of social epidemiology, with an emphasis in cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes in underrepresented populations. Specifically, this includes the identification and analysis of primary and secondary risk factors for hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and type 2 diabetes, including obesity; development of questionnaires and indices for the evaluation and analysis of social and behavioral correlates of hypertension and type 2 diabetes; qualitative and quantitative investigation of cultural factors associated with body image; and development and implementation of cardiovascular-related community-based interventions. She has over 10 years of experience leading and conducting hypertension-related church-based studies in African American populations. Currently, she is involved with projects investigating lifestyle behaviors and health care access in adolescent, postpartum, and elderly populations at risk for cardiovascular-related diseases and their complications.
