Miranda Worthen earned her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her BA from Harvard and her MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford University. Dr. Worthen grew up outside of Boston, MA and has been living in the Bay Area since 2006. Her research is broadly focused on social justice and public health. The scope of her work includes basic epidemiology of psychosocial factors; the development of context-appropriate participatory action research and mixed methodologies; and intervention research aimed at ameliorating health disparities. Most of her work focuses on social factors that influence the physical and mental health impact of exposure to violence and stress at the individual, family, community, and societal level. Dr. Worthen has worked with U.S. service members and veterans, young mothers formerly associated with armed groups in Africa, and college students in the U.S.