About
Dr. Carroll-Scott is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing urban health inequities and underlying social inequities. This research consists of social epidemiological and mixed methods studies applied to the lived experience of urban neighborhoods and schools, and driven by community-based participatory research approaches.
In both practice and academic settings, Dr. Carroll-Scott has worked in partnership with policymakers, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers to conduct community health assessments, program evaluations, and neighborhood-level surveillance, and to report results back in user-friendly and timely ways to inform policy advocacy, program planning, and clinical care. Current projects include Co-PI of the West Philly Promise Neighborhood initiative and multi-PI of its Data & Research Core, and PI of a policy surveillance study of policing reforms in US cities following George Floyd’s murder, a Philadelphia cross-institutional Maternal and Child Health Collaborative, and a systematic literature review and white paper on community-led systems transformation frameworks. Dr. Carroll-Scott also serves as co-investigator of the Addressing Urban Community Violence Working Group, a study of community engagement in Autism research, a study of syndemics among Latino youth in Philadelphia, and a feasibility study of an occupational health intervention program among Vietnamese nail salons in the Greater Philadelphia region.
Prior to Drexel, Dr. Carroll-Scott was Director of Research for the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement at the Yale School of Public Health, where her work centered on the impact of community organizing and multi-sectoral, community-based chronic disease prevention interventions and policies on the health status of New Haven residents. This work employed a longitudinal design at the neighborhood and school level, and consisted of asset mapping, a school-based obesity prevention randomized control trial, and triennial community health assessments representative at the neighborhood level and conducted in partnership with community leaders and Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Dr. Carroll-Scott received her doctoral degree from the UCLA School of Public Health, where she was a Chancellor's Fellow and a Demography trainee of the California Center for Population Research. Dr. Carroll-Scott’s dissertation explored the relationships between neighborhood structural characteristics, neighborhood-level social processes, and child wellbeing. While at UCLA, Dr. Carroll-Scott directed and evaluated the Data & Democracy Statewide Training Initiative at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, which provided free courses in basic research skills and community health assessment methodology for community leaders in underserved communities throughout California.
Dr. Carroll-Scott is co-lead of the Policy and Community Engagement Core of the Drexel School of Public Health Urban Health Collaborative and Founder and Chair of the annual Day of Action at the American Public Health Association annual meeting.