Francesca Mucciaccio, MPH

Doctoral Research Fellow

Francesca Mucciaccio, MPH, is an epidemiology PhD student at Drexel. Francesca earned an MPH in health policy from Emory University and a BA in linguistics with focus on linguistic anthropology from Reed College. Previously, she was a public health analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, working on federal policy and strategy development and science translation. Through the years, she worked in multiple areas, including chronic disease, emergency response, global health, and sickle cell disease. Her interests include measurement approaches to address racial, ethnic, and spatial disparities in chronic disease. Additional interests include the effects of neighborhood-level factors and built environment on chronic disease in urban contexts.