Danielle R. Gartner is a population health scientist whose work recognizes and supports Indigenous self-determination, sovereignty, and resurgence. She is a post-doctoral researcher at Michigan State University’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and received doctoral training in social epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Gartner’s research is interdisciplinary and informed by frameworks and methods used in epidemiology, health services, sociology, geography, economics, and Indigenous studies. Her main research foci include identification and rigorous estimation of health disparities, particularly in reproductive health and expansion of conversations regarding the ethical bounds of health research. She has previously worked as a program director at non-profits that desired environmental justice in Flint and Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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