Professional Background

Dr. Redmond is an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health, Wichita Campus. Her current research focuses on digital health interventions with underserved populations and infant mortality. She directs two courses within the Master of Public Health program, PRVM 845: Health, Society, and Culture as well as PRVM 849: Qualitative Methods in Public Health.

Dr. Redmond is a community psychologist by training. She received her Master’s degree in clinical psychology from Emporia State University in 2001. She then received her PhD in community psychology from Wichita State University in 2006. She then went on to complete postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Redmond's primary research addresses health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations, food insecurity/chronic disease, self-efficacy, women's health issues and digital health interventions. Dr. Redmond also has extensive experience conducting program evaluations for community-based and local governmental organizations. She has expertise in community-based participatory research and qualitative research design.

Dr. Redmond is the principal investigator on the eDECIDE project, funded through the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1K01HL135472-01A1, PI: Redmond, ML). The eDECIDE project is a pilot clinical trial focused on investigating problem-solving as a key component in an online diabetes self-management program designed to improve outcomes for those with uncontrolled diabetes. Dr. Redmond is also an investigator on a Patients Centered Outcomes Research grant (PI: Smith, S) which is a community-based project focused on creating a Kansas Birth Equity Network to address African American infant mortality. Dr. Redmond has also been the recipient of an NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Diversity Supplement Award where she examined physical activity and nutrition habits among older African American women at-risk for peripheral arterial disease (3R01HL098909-04S1; PI: Collins, T.; Awardee: Redmond, ML). Dr. Redmond has collaborated as a co-investigator on grants addressing prenatal physical activity and nutrition: Preventing Childhood Obesity Through Physical Activity and Nutrition (United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, PI: Frazier, L.) and Fear and Other Barriers to Physical Activity During Pregnancy (KBA, PI: Frazier, L.).

Dr. Redmond is actively involved in the health equity special interest group for the Society of Behavioral Medicine and she is a member of the Society for Community Research and Action, Div. 27 of the American Psychological Association.

• BS, Fisk Univ.
• MS, Emporia State Univ.
• PhD, Wichita State Univ.
• Post Doctoral Fellowship, Behavioral Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Post Doctoral Fellowship, Behavioral Health, University of Michigan, Substance Abuse Research Ctr, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Fetal Infant Mortality Review Board-Sedgwick County, KS, FIMR, Member, 2020 - Present
• Society of Community Research and Action, Div 27 of American Psychological Association, Member, 2019 - Present
• Society of Behavioral Medicine, Health Equity SIG, Member, 2016 - Present
• Kansas Public Health Association, Member, 2013 - Present