Paula Strassle

Dr. Paula Strassle is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Maryland. Her work focuses on identifying neighborhood, healthcare system, and individual barriers to high-quality, appropriate care for racial and ethnic minority populations and rural communities.

Dr. Strassle specializes in leveraging high-dimensional health data, data linkage, and advanced epidemiologic methods to conduct population health research that can inform clinical practice and reduce health disparities in marginalized populations. She is also interested in exploring the impact of bias in observational research and making complex epidemiologic methods accessible to junior researchers and clinical audiences.