Dr. Caryn Bell, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Science and an Associate Director for the Partners for Advancing Health Equity (also known as P4HE) at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

P4HE is a cross-sector national research learning collaborative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Caryn Bell’s research focuses on the unique impacts of socioeconomic status (SES) and place on cardiovascular disease risk factors in Black Americans and racial disparities. She teaches courses on health equity, racism and health, as well as, place and Black health in the U.S. Prior to joining the faculty at Tulane, she was an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University Maryland, College Park. She received her PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.