Dr. Serena Rajabiun is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her M.A. at Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, her M.P.H. at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and her Ph.D. at Boston University. Her research focuses on community-based strategies and interventions to increase access to and the quality of health care services and reduce health disparities. She works with individuals across the life course, including immigrant children and their families, children and youth in the foster care system, and youth and adults living with HIV who experience homelessness. She has also developed national training programs and curricula for community health workers as part of a health care team to improve health outcomes. She spent a decade working on community-based programs to improve maternal and child health and nutrition, and HIV prevention in Latin America and Africa.