Dr. Smith-Morris is a medical anthropologist with expertise in chronic and complex illness (particularly diabetes), mixed methodologies including community- and home-based participatory research, program evaluation, and health services research among minority and Indigenous communities. Her CBPR research has engaged Amazonian Kichwa in Ecuador, Gila River (Akimel O’odham) Indian Community of Southern Arizona, Australian Peak Hill Wiradjuri, Mexicans and Mexican immigrants to the U.S., and a number of groups in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. She has contributed critical insights to the strategies in telehealth (GoogleHealth funded study of diabetes retinopathy screening experience), neighborhood (place) based stigma (NSF funded study of COVID experience in 2 Dallas neighborhoods), and values of family- and community-centeredness (NSF funded studies in Mexico and Ecuador). Dr. Smith-Morris has trained and led collaborative teams in urban, rural, and remote settings and specializes in training and collaboration wtih community health workers and community research assistants. Dr. Smith-Morris received her B.A. in Anthropology from Emory University, an M.S. in Rehabilitation Services from Florida State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from The University of Arizona. She is a settler, cisgender female professor and researcher with a strong interest in training graduate, mixed-methods researchers. She publishes to a broad, interdisciplinary audience through journals such as: Social Science & Medicine, Nutrients, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, BMC Health Services Research, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and PLOS-One. She has published 4 books including two single-author ethnographies (Indigenous Communalism by Rutgers U. Press and Diabetes Among the Pima by U. Arizona Press), and two edited volumes (Diagnostic Controversy by Routledge Press, and Chronic Conditions, Fluid States with Lenore Manderson, Rutgers U. Press). A 5th is in production, and edited volume with Routledge Press on models of communalism within contemporary capitalist and industrial pressures.