PHC ITI Fellowship

Stephanie Cook, DrPH, MPH

Dr. Cook, an ISI 2022 Alum and ISI 2025 facilitator, joins as the PHC ITI Fellow 2025-2026

Dr. Cook’s research on applying intersectionality to quantitative methods is internationally recognized as impactful, authentic and at the vanguard of quantitative health equity research.

The Patricia Hill Collins (PHC) Intersectionality Training Institute (ITI) Fellowship focuses on:

Research: intersectionality-related research design, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, and/or writing in subjects and projects furthering the use of intersectionality as a conceptual/theoretical framework, methodology, or praxis.

Thought Leadership: promoting the benefits and utility of intersectionality in their specific area of research and scholarship to scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners via ITI’s communication channels.

Education: instructing, training, and supporting others in intersectionality-related methodologies, paradigms, history and/or praxis, primarily through ITI-branded activities.

“We are thrilled to honor Stephanie H. Cook, DrPH, MPH, an Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Biostatistics at the NYU School of Global Public Health, as the inaugural Patricia Hill Collins Intersectionality Training Institute (PHC ITI) Fellow.   Dr. Cook has been a cherished member of our ITI community since she participated in the inaugural Intersectionality Summer Intensive (ISI 2022) cohort. Underscoring her commitment intersectional learning and our ITI community, she has returned to ISI each summer as a peer mentor.  Post ISI 2022, she quickly emerged as a leading intersectionality researcher with two National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded intersectionality informed grants as PI, and a third as a co-PI.  Her health disparities research is groundbreaking in the sense that she is dedicated to investigating underexamined areas such as social media as a source of intersectional discrimination for sexual and gender minority (SGM) people and cardiometabolic health behaviors among Black SGM.  Her research is also methodologically innovative with approaches such as geographically explicit ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) and qualitative mapping.  Indeed, she’s passionate about methods, quantitative methods especially.  We’re incredibly proud of Dr. Cook’s growth in the quantitative intersectionality research space, and as such were thrilled to have her as a facilitator at ISI 2025.  We’re excited to watch her continued growth as a thought leader, researcher, and methodological innovator in advancing quantitative intersectionality research with fidelity to intersectionality’s core tenets.   We remain grateful to Professor Patricia Hill Collins for granting us permission to name the Fellowship in her honor.  Dr. Collins’ many and momentous contributions to advancing intersectionality in the U.S. and internationally are beyond measure.  Dr. Collins’ poignant reminder that intersectionality is not just a field of study or analytic lens, but a critical tool for social justice praxis, is a potent beacon for the ITI and our new PHC ITI Fellowship. ” ITI CEO and Founder, Lisa Bowleg, PhD, MA

”I’m passionate about collaborating with the ITI community to build awareness around the utility of quantitative intersectionality methods. I aim to bridge the gap between collectively developing and applying intersectional frameworks while maintaining fundamental principles of power and equity. During my Fellowship year, I will present innovative approaches that position space as a core principle of intersectionality.” says Dr. Cook.

“I am looking forward to seeing what Professor Stephanie Cook is going to bring to intersectionality. The field needs this kind of precision and attentiveness in quantitative methodology, " says Professor Patricia Hill Collins, for whom the Fellowship is named.

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