Dr. Rebekah Walker is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Division Chief for the Division of Population Health in the Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. She completed her Bachelors work at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, her Master’s at Nova Southeastern University, and her Ph.D. in Health and Rehabilitation Science at the Medical University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on reducing and eliminating health disparities by addressing social and structural determinants of health, with particular emphasis on chronic disease outcomes in low-income populations. She has authored over 180 peer-reviewed publications investigating mechanisms and pathways for behavioral, psychosocial, and community level social determinants of health, and has served on study sections for the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and National Institute of Health (NIH). She is currently funded as a Multiple PI through the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to test community-based strategies to address food insecurity. She is also funded as a co-investigator through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to identify structural racism pathways via social risks and identify policy interventions to improve diabetes outcomes.