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Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH, is a social epidemiologist whose work examines the intersection of a number of important disciplines including vascular epidemiology and behavioral and social science. Her research initially utilized the rich prospective database of the Northern Manhattan Study (NOMAS) as she examined issues of race-ethnicity, and social resources/health disparities including isolation, educational attainment, nativity, acculturation, health care utilization, language, and literacy. Her research is specifically related to health disparities, stroke, and vascular disease with an emphasis on the identification of novel modifiable stroke risk factors, and the promotion of behavioral change for primary and secondary stroke prevention. The field of stroke disparities research incorporating educational strategies and health literacy has been growing rapidly and she has become an expert in this field as evidenced by the award of a number of peer reviewed research grants. This includes an American Heart Association Grant, “Intensive social support and blood pressure control among minority women post stroke”; an educational grant from Sanofi , “Issues Surrounding Antiplatelet Compliance Post Stroke”; Project 3, “Stroke Warning information and Faster Treatment (SWIFT)” within a SPOTRIAS program project (the NIH/NINDS Columbia Collaborative Specialized Program of Translational Research in Acute Stroke, or SPOTRIAS); the Community Engagement Core (CER) within the NIH funded Columbia University CTSA; Project 1 “SWIFT Atlanta” within the NIH/NINDS funded SPRIP Morehouse contract and the RO1, “Families Understanding Risk Reduction through Educational Reinforcement” She was recently appointed PI for the CU 4 School Dean’s Grant entitled “The Impact of Social Inequities on the Complex Relationship between Oral Health and Peripheral Vascular”. She continues to be involved in numerous interdisciplinary collaborations across many areas of the Columbia University Campus (Medicine, Cardiology, Public Health, Dental, Nursing, Harlem Hospital).