University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Dr. Schulz is a sociologist with expertise in the joint contributions of social and physical environmental exposures to health inequities, and a leading scholar in the field of community based participatory research (CBPR). She has extensive experience working collaboratively with community, practice and academic partners to conduct both etiologic and intervention research to understand and reduce health inequities. Her current work with the Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments (CAPHE) partnership, a CBPR partnership, focuses on air pollution, social and economic inequities in exposure and impacts, implementation of components of CAPHE’s scientifically and community grounded Public Health Action Plan to reduce excess risk in the Detroit Metropolitan area. Her specific expertise is in analysis of joint contributions of social and physical environmental conditions to racial and socioeconomic health inequities, development and implementation of policy and programmatic interventions, conducting health impact assessments (HIAs) of proposed policies, and in the engagement of community, academic and public health practice partners in participatory research and intervention efforts.
