School of Medicine

Alcohol & Drug Abuse Center of Excellence

Tekeda Ferguson, PhD

Tekeda Ferguson, PhD

School of Public Health

 

Research  focuses on a multilevel approach to account for and better understand the complex synergistic social determinants that impact alcohol use and chronic comorbidities. Dr. Ferguson has expertise in chronic disease epidemiology and her team focuses on taking a biopsychosocial approach to understanding the social environment as well as traditional pathophysiologic measures on the influence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cancer.