Holly R. TomlinJM, MPH

Holly R. Tomlin, JM, MPH 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 recently completed a competitive fellowship with Weill Cornell Medicine. She is currently a student in the PhD Health Law, Policy, and Management Program at Meharry Medical College, School of Global Health.

Ms. Tomlin’s primary interest is advancing legal epidemiology in the study of health law and policy on social structures that promulgate poor health outcomes, particularly cardiometabolic disorders (diabetes and hypertension), cardio-kidney metabolic syndrome, and APOL-1-related chronic kidney disease that result in kidney transplant decisions. As a Research Fellow at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, 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.