Natalie Smith's work aims to advance public health by generating tools and evidence to inform program and policy decision making. She has developed a research program to support this mission that emphasizes applying various decision science methods such as stated preference methods, economic evaluation, simulation modeling, and other decision analysis approaches. She is also trained in systems thinking, biostatistics, network analysis, health services research, and econometrics. Substantively, her research program spans multiple areas of chronic disease and cancer prevention; current projects relate primarily to tobacco control and prevention and public health nutrition.
Education
- 2015 – Purdue University – BS
- 2017 – Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill – MS
- 2021 - Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill – PhD
