Kayo Fujimoto

Kayo Fujimoto, PhD, is a Professor at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, Houston. She holds the Sally W. Vernon, PhD Distinguished Professorship in Social Determinants of Health. Her work focuses on applying social network methodologies and graph-based deep learning to address health disparities through population-level research.

• Research Areas: HIV/AIDS, sexual minority men, molecular epidemiology, healthcare systems, and AI-driven intervention design.
• Affiliations: Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research.
• Methodological Expertise: Social network modeling, big data analysis, and interdisciplinary approaches to health equity.