Stephanie Kirkland

Stephanie Kirkland, PhD is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at Texas A&M University School of Public Health. She holds a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and has an MA and BA in Sociology from Texas Tech University.

• Expertise: Public health communication, health policy formation, opioid use impacts, and health morality.
• Teaching Focus: Social determinants of health, health disparities, substance use, immigrant health, and deviant behavior sociology.

Research Trends: Her work examines intersections between socioeconomic factors and health outcomes, with particular attention to immigrant communities and financial stressors. Publications demonstrate methodological diversity spanning policy analysis, population health studies, and social network dynamics.

Notable Contributions: Research on ACA implementation effects for Mexican American immigrants, longitudinal analysis of financial stress impacts on midlife health, and dyadic/triadic interaction models in health contexts.