Ms Holly R. Tomlin, JM, MPH is a Research Affiliate for the Consumer Health Informatics Lab (CHIL) at Yale School of Medicine, Section Bioinformatics and Data Sciences, where she collaborates as a writer and data scientist to support the overall mission of the lab. Ms Tomlin’s own research interest includes reducing health inequities by developing clinical decision support tools (CDS) that integrates law and policy with data-driven modeling to prevent and/or accurately treat cardiometabolic disorders that lead to vascular dementia.

Ms. Tomlin received her international public health degree from Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA. Subsequently she continued to work in New Orleans as a data scientist and clinical research coordinator and then as a field epidemiologist/program manager in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Later, Ms. Tomlin worked as a medical writer in the biopharmaceutical industry and for public health agencies. She recently graduated from Emory University Law School with a Juris Master in legal studies and legal research. Ms. Tomlin is currently a Ph D student in Health Law, Policy, and Management at Meharry Medical College, School of Global Health where she will study the ramifications of health law and policy on social structures that promulgate poor health outcomes, particularly cardiometabolic disorders). As a Research Fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine, Ms Tomlin incorporates into her research the Political Determinants of Health and the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health frameworks, while working on initiatives to bridge community health and academic medicine.

I am also a photographer and aromachologist.