Ph.D. Student Profile
Koya Ferrell
- Doctoral Student
Research Interests & Projects
Koya Ferrell is a Doctoral student in the School of Public Health in the Department
of Health Behavior and Health Education. Her research interest includes the impact
of racial stress and trauma on healthcare engagement and ways to improve patient-provider
relationships and quality of care delivery through physician training centered around
anti-racism and dismantling structural and institutional inequity. She holds a masters
degree in Physiology and Biophysics and previously served as a research trainee at
the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes
of Health. During her doctoral studies, she hopes to bring together her past clinical
care experience with her current studies in community health and community-based participatory
research to better understand and improve preventive medicine services, specifically
for Black communities.