CONTRIBUTOR:

Alexa Solazzo

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

DEPARTMENT:

Epidemiology

INSTITUTION:

Harvard School of Public Health

BIOGRAPHY:

Alexa Solazzo completed her PhD in Sociology from Rice University in 2018, with a focus in population health and gender. Her dissertation examined the relationship between structural stigma and health insurance, health care access, and physical health status for LGB people. Dr. Solazzo is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and Boston Children's Hospital. Her current research focuses on stigma and LGB health, particularly in the roles of cancer prevention and detection.