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Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH

Amy Carroll-Scott

Chair of the Department of Community Health and Prevention and Professor
Community Health and Prevention, Urban Health Collaborative
267.359.6061
amy.carroll-scott@drexel.edu
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Degrees

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
MPH, University of California at Berkeley
BA, University of Pennsylvania

Bio

Dr. Carroll-Scott is Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health. Drawing on social epidemiology, mixed methods, and intervention research, her work seeks to advance health equity by strengthening community power and transforming the systems that shape health. She partners with community organizations, residents, and public-sector agencies to co-design and evaluate interventions that address structural inequities in urban communities.

Current projects include serving as Multiple Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded National Community-Led Research Coordinating Center; Principal Investigator of an organizational development grant for the Promise Zone Research Connection, a resident-led nonprofit that facilitates community oversight of research conducted in West Philadelphia neighborhoods; Principal Investigator of a Pennsylvania Department of Health-funded project to build community participatory research and violence prevention evaluation capacity; and Co-Investigator and Evaluation Lead of the HRSA-funded Healing-Centered Learning Academy, which trains paraprofessionals and community health workers. She also serves as Multiple Principal Investigator of Drexel's subaward to the NSF-supported International Network of Networks for Well-Being in the Built Environment, an interdisciplinary collaboration advancing research on healthy communities worldwide. Her work has informed community-engaged research practice, violence prevention initiatives, and efforts to strengthen community participation and power in research, public health, systems change, and institutional decision-making.

Dr. Carroll-Scott is co-founder and co-leader of the Philadelphia Maternal and Child Health Collaborative and serves as Co-Investigator and Doctoral Student Director of the HRSA-funded Center of Excellence in Maternal, Child, Adolescent, and Family Health. She also founded and leads the Drexel Community-Engaged Research Working Group.

Research Interests

  • Urban health
  • Health and Place or Built Environment
  • Community Based Participatory Research
  • Health inequities
  • Spatial analysis or GIS
  • Data integration
  • Data visualization
  • Mixed methods study designs
  • Place-based, cross-sector interventions and evaluation

Publications

Austin, S.B., Caroll-Scott, A., Cohen, J. E., Cooper, S. C., Duberstein, P., Dulin, A., Evans, E. A., Gee, G., Green, K. M., Hawk, M., Hudson, D., Ingram, L. A., Kerr, J., Kershaw, T., Maman, S., Operario, D., Roby, D. H., Rodriguez-Diaz, C. E., Sacheck, J., Shaw, B., Vander Weg, M., & Walsh-Buhi, E. R. (In press). One Year Later: Social and Behavioral Sciences Department Chairs Reflect on Public Health, Dismantling Infrastructure, and Stewardship for the Future of the Field. American Journal of Public Health.

Silverman, C., Yudell, M., & Carroll-Scott, A. (2026). "They Really Save Us From Ourselves" : Autism Researchers' Insights on Community Engagement and Ethics. Journal of bioethical inquiry, 10.1007/s11673-025-10511-x. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-025-10511-x

Lê-Scherban, F., Norman, J., Ryan, V.*, Beverly, M., Rodrigues, N. M., Jannetti, M., Courts, K. A., Fusfeld, Z.*, Carroll-Scott, A., Mayne, S. L., Kersten, H., Hirsch, J. A., & Melly, S. (2026). Translating caregiver-identified neighborhood features into quantitative variables for statistical analyses of effects on child health. Annals of Epidemiology, 121, 110149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2026.110149

Jannetti, M., Khanam, F., Beverly, M., Gilliam, E., Headen, I., de Cuba, S. E., Carroll-Scott, A., & Lê-Scherban, F. (2026). Associations of adverse and positive childhood experiences with selfreported difficulty sleeping among urban caregivers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Preventive Medicine Reports, 66, 103481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2026.103481

Moore, C. M.*, Schinasi, L. H., & Carroll-Scott, A. (2026). Hot button: A content analysis of public comments on OSHA's proposed heat injury and illness prevention standard. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000003721

Black, M. M., Bruening, M. M., Carroll-Scott, A., Dave, J. M., Ebi, K. L., Iannotti, L. L., Johnson, S. L., Ritchie, L. D., Jimenez, E. Y., Steiber, A. L., & Raiten, D. J. (2025). Understanding the Nutrition Ecology and Related Distal and Proximal Research Gaps Impacting School-Aged Children's and Adolescents' Functioning-A Report From the "Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development: Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency (BOND-KIDS)" Project Working Group 2. The Journal of Nutrition, S0022-3166(25)00639-X. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.10.020

Lieberman, J. T., Dsouza, N.*, Valdez, C. R., Pintor, J. K., Weisz, P., Carroll-Scott, A., & Martinez-Donate, A. P. (2025). Interior Immigration Enforcement Experiences, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health of U.S.-citizen, Adolescents with Mexican Immigrant Parents. Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 13(1), 18–34. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000263

Beverly M, Munn T.*, Young T, Carroll-Scott A, Kinsey EW, Courts KA, Jannetti M, Ettinger de Cuba S, Lê-Scherban F. (2025). Multilevel Factors Influencing Food Purchasing Decisions Among Families With Low Incomes During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Qualitative Study. J Acad Nutr Diet. Mar 27:S2212-2672(25)00112-1. (PMID: 40157499).

Verdecias-Pellum, N.*, Silverman, C., Yudell, M., Carroll-Scott, A., (2025). Inequities in Community-Engaged Autism Research: Community Member Perspectives. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 19(1):e5-e6.

Weida, E.B., Carroll-Scott, A., Le-Scherban, F., Bloom, S., Chilton, M. (2024). Traumainformed Financial Empowerment Programming Associated with Improved Financial Well-being. J Child Fam Stud. 33:3541–3550. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02927-7

Mitchell, B.*, Min, J., Brogan, L., Carroll-Scott, A., Fein, JA. (2024). Fighting behavior, conflict perceptions, and firearm access among U.S. adolescents in a pediatric emergency department. Prev Med, 185:108052.

Dsouza, N.*, Carroll-Scott, A., Bilal, U., Headen, I.E., Quick, H., Reis, R., Abraham, M., Martinez-Donate, A.P. (2024). Development and validation of statewide survey-based measures of livability in Connecticut. Health and Place, 89:103282.

Dsouza, N.*, Carroll-Scott, A., Bilal, U., Headen, I.E., Reis, R., Martinez-Donate, A.P. (2023). Investigating the measurement properties of livability: A scoping review. Cities and Health. 7(5):839-853. (PMID: 38046106).

Lê-Scherban, F., Headen, I., Klem, A. M., Traister, K., Gilliam, E., Beverly, M., Jannetti, M., Ferroni, J., & Carroll-Scott, A. (2023). Research and Evaluation in a Child-Focused Place- Based Initiative: West Philly Promise Neighborhood. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(9), Article 9. (PMID: 37174234).

Lieberman, J. T.*, Valdez, C. R., Pintor, J. K., Weisz, P., Carroll-Scott, A., Wagner, K., & Martinez-Donate, A. P. (2023). “It felt like hitting rock bottom”: A qualitative exploration of the mental health impacts of immigration enforcement and discrimination on US-citizen, Mexican children. Latino Studies, 1–25. (PMID: 37358960).

See Dr. Carroll-Scott's full list of publications on PubMed