MEET THE TEAM

Isabel is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing where her research focuses on identifying effective implementation strategies to promote access to evidence-based complementary and integrative health practices among diverse populations. In 2024, she was awarded the National Institutes of Health’s HEAL Award for Community Partnership. She was a Research Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Medicine’s Program on Integrative Medicine from 2021-2024. In 2021, she completed a T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Integrative Health funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Integrative, Complementary, and Traditional Health Practices Section of the American Public Health Association. She was awarded the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health’s Young Investigator Award in 2018.

Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health (UTHealth), with Dr. Vanessa Schick. In December 2017, Isabel graduated from the UTHealth School of Public Health with Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH). As a student, graduate assistant, and teaching assistant in the Community Health Practice program, she worked with professors and students throughout the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health. In 2013, Isabel graduated from Georgetown University with a Master's of Science degree in Physiology, Biophysics, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Previously, she taught 7th grade Life Science in Oakland, CA as a Teach for America Corps Member. 

Isabel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College, where she studied Dance and Neuroscience and graduated with Highest Honors.