In adolescent girls and young women from Kenya, Belgium, and the US, cervicovaginal immune mediators increase in the months following first penile-vaginal intercourse.
Dr. Vida Henderson. Public health researcher Dr. Henderson focuses on preventive health services utilization as well as cancer prevention and early detection, particularly in underserved populations and high-risk communities. An expert in racial and gender health inequities; minority health; women’s health; health communication and community-engaged research, her goal is to improve gender and racial health inequities by exploring multi-level associations between socio-economic status, health literacy, structural bias and other social determinants of health, and physical and mental health as well as behavioral outcomes.