
Kristynn Sullivan became an epidemiologist and the accreditation coordinator of the Merced County Department of Public Health, in California’s Central Valley, immediately after finishing her doctorate in Quantitative Psychology at the University of California, Merced in 2015. She works on both communicable and chronic disease projects, as well as local equity initiatives and collaborations with local substance abuse prevention programs. Sullivan grew up in the D.C. metro area, and received her bachelor’s in psychology at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA.