Maura Eswaradas is a researcher and epidemiologist with interests in chronic disease epidemiology, health equity and the social determinants of health. She is passionate about using evidence to understand health discrepancies across different populations and to support program and policy change. Her work at Wellesley Institute focuses on diabetes outcomes and its social determinants of health across racialized populations.
Maura holds a Master of Public Health with a specialization in epidemiology from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Wellesley, she worked for governmental organizations where she performed quantitative analyses using various kinds of data, supported the production of indicators to guide evidence-informed decision-making, and produced various kinds of knowledge translation products.