Emily  Lemon

Emily ("Em") Lemon, MPH is a PhD Candidate in Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences at Emory University. Em's research focuses on the social, political and community contexts that shape health among Latinx immigrant families, with particular focus on the local enforcement of immigration policy on Latinx adolescent mental health. Her interests are in understanding social cognitive mechanisms (e.g., critical conciousness, community connectedness) that link social policies to individual health, and leveraging these as intervention strategies to promote health and wellbeing in Latinx families and communities. Em's engages in mixed-methods and community-based participatory action research to explore and intervene upon ongoing health disparities facing Latinx families in the Nuevo South. Her dissertation research is funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health R36 Dissertation Grant and the Emory Prevention Research Center's Community Engaged Research Mini-Grant. She currently serves as a student representative for the Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences serving as a liason and advocate to the Deans Student Advisory Board and BSHES DPC. 

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