Biography

Dr. Sze "Sam" Liu completed requirements for her PhD in Epidemiology from Brown University, Program in Public Health. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Biology and Psychology from Cornell University and a Master's in Public Health in Epidemiology from Columbia University. Prior to moving to Providence for graduate school, Sam worked on tuberculosis and tobacco control related-projects at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Her dissertation research quantifies the effect of school desegregation policy on reducing racial disparities in adolescent birth rates in the US. Sam plans to continue to investigate how school desegregation and resegregation trends in recent years affected the health of the US population. Her general research interests include examining how educational quality affects health, investigating the role of social and physical environmental factors in creating health disparities, and understanding the health consequences of governmental social policy. Sam is a Kellogg Health Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health.