- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Dr. Kristi Allgood is a trained Social Epidemiologist with more than a decade of field experience working as a Social Epidemiologist at a research institute nested in a safety-net hospital located on the west side of Chicago. Allgood's fieldwork focused on examining racial and ethnic health disparities in small areas of Chicago, developing and evaluating programs focused on breast cancer, HIV, STIs and hepatitis C, and incorporating community health workers/navigators in the hospital as well as in the community. Dr. Allgood's work in Chicago has strongly influenced her primary research examining the causes of health disparities by focusing on policies and laws that have contributed to poor health outcomes in all phases of life. Dr. Allgood has been working on examining issues such as rural/urban differences in access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan and the relationship between social vulnerability and COVID-related mobility disability. Dr. Allgood's most recent work involved the measurement of structural racism and its association with various health outcomes such as birth outcomes, mortality, and disability.
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States), Postdoctoral Training 2023
- Ph.D. in Epidemiological Science, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) 2021
- M.P.H. in Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago - (Chicago, Illinois, United States) 2003
- B.S. in Exercise Science, Miami University - (Oxford, Ohio, United States) 1997
Academic Articles30
- Needham, B. L., Dokshina, D., Ali, T., Allgood, K. L., Douglas, M., Dulin, A., ... Agnor, M. (2025). Exposure to structural racism-related state laws is associated with worse cardiovascular health among US adults, BRFSS 2011 and 2013.. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(1), kwae176-151.
- Allgood, K. L., Fleischer, N. L., Assari, S., Morenoff, J., & Needham, B. L. (2024). Residential Segregation and Framingham 30-Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Black and White Young Adults in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Race and Social Problems. 16(4), 1-19.
- Allgood, K. L., Fleischer, N. L., Assari, S., Morenoff, J., & Needham, B. L. (2024). School Segregation During Adolescence is Associated with Higher 30-Year Cardiovascular Risk of Black but not White Young Adults.. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. 1-15.
- Ali, T., Allgood, K. L., Needham, B., Ro, A., Hirschtick, J. L., & Fleischer, N. L. (2024). Policies and Indicators to Operationalize Structural Racism for Quantitative Health Research.. American Journal of Epidemiology. kwae250.
- Allgood, K. L., Fleischer, N. L., Morenoff, J., Assari, S., & Needham, B. L. (2024). Do Police Encounters Increase the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease? Police Encounters and Framingham 30-Year Cardiovascular Risk Score.. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. 11(1), 348-363.
Chapters1
- Allgood, K. L., Rauscher, G. H., & Whitman, S. (2012). Screening Mammography Need, Utilization and Capacity in Chicago: Can We Fulfill Our Mission and Our Promises?. Mammography - Recent Advances. IntechOpen.
Reports5
- Hirschtick, J. L., Patel, A., Allgood, K., Elliott, M. R., & Feischer, N. L. (2023). Data Report 8: Geographic Differences in Access to Care, Recovery, and the Social Impact of COVID-19 in Michigan.
- Hirschman, J., Whitman, S., Ansel, D., Grabler, P., & Allgood, K. (2006). Part III Measuring Mammography Quality.
- PHEB611 Epidemiologic Methods Iii Instructor
- PHEB624 Social Epidemiology Instructor
- PHEB685 Directed Studies Instructor
- PHEB686 Directed Research Instructor
- PHEB691 Research Instructor
