Doctoral Candidate
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Emma C. Lewis, MS, is a Doctoral Candidate and T32 Predoctoral Fellow in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of public health and behavioral health psychology, with a particular focus on improving food access in underserved communities and reducing the prevalence of obesity. She is especially passionate about working with vulnerable populations, such as low-income, minority, and adolescent populations, utilizing community-based participatory research strategies, mHealth approaches, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Currently, Miss Lewis is the lead project coordinator of an NIH-funded R34 Trial investigating the development, implementation, and evaluation of a mobile application for the proliferation of healthy affordable foods in small food retail stores located in low-income urban settings across the country.