chconley

As a nurse scientist, Dr. Conley's research focuses on health equity and developing asset-building programs and policies with underserved communities and populations. Her doctoral work included developing and implementing a community-based peer-to-peer support program to promote healthy weight, contributing to the development of an HIV prevention intervention in African American beauty salons, and establishing a 'Campus to Community' forum and speaker series to connect faith communities in underserved communities with health researchers and practitioners.

While serving as a U-M National Clinician Postdoctoral Scholar, Dr. Conley expanded her research to explore systems that affect upstream determinants of equity and community health. She used secondary quantitative data analysis to understand how nonprofit hospitals integrate equity into their community benefit programs. Dr. Conley's active projects focus on how hospitals address social determinants of health outside of community benefit programs. Her current proposed projects and grants use peer support to improve diabetes prevention program delivery in medically underserved African American communities.