Ami Moore, Ph.D., MPH, CPH

Dr. Ami Moore is a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Health Services at the University of North Texas. She was a recipient of HIV/AIDS Fulbright Scholar grant in 2006 and 2012. Moore’s areas of expertise include aging related-issues, HIV/AIDS prevention, health disparities, social demography, and public health education and health promotion.

My research interests have evolved as I go through the different phases of my academic journey. First, as a social demographer, my scholarship focused on the social and economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States. Second, as HIV/AIDS became a global epidemic with great racial, ethnic, social and economic disparities, I began examining the social and structural dimensions of HIV acquisition and prevention among vulnerable populations with a focus on the determinants of disclosure of serostatus on one hand, and caregiving challenges on the other hand. I also, examined health disparities, focusing on the social determinants of health.

Social determinants of health are the diverse factors that influence health from childhood until death. Third, while I continue investigating the social and structural dimensions of HIV/AIDS, I have put more emphasis on health disparity research after earning a Public Health degree. My current research interests center around racial and ethnic disparities in different areas such as clinical trial participation, obesity, disabilities, and mental health. I have also begun to conduct health services research looking at determinants of support for government obesity intervention programs and factors that influence long term care funding schemes.