简介

Dr. Scott is a native of Oxford, Ohio, and received a BA in Microbiology from Miami University before heading north to do an MS in Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked for a biotechnology firm in San Diego before heading back to Baltimore, Maryland, to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. There she received an MHS in International Health and worked on a vaccine field trial with field sites in Guatemala and Mexico. She stayed at Johns Hopkins for her PhD, where she shifted from laboratory work to a focus on the social and behavioral aspects of public health.