Ms. Niasha Fray is a proud native of North Carolina with an academic background in Clinical Psychology and Public Health. She has worked on research that involves health promotion and behavior change of at-risk populations including those affected by substance abuse, incarceration, HIV/AIDS, and Cancer. Niasha has also served as a counselor delivering Motivational Interviewing risk reduction counseling for people working to overcome addiction, disruptive behavior disorders, and people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. She has developed and provided a variety of community-based professional trainings among health care providers throughout North Carolina and internationally on HIV education, prevention, and risk reduction. Ms. Fray has also provided support to community-based agencies through outreach, education, post-test counseling, and capacity-building for local and regional health departments. Currently she is a Program Director at the Duke Center for Community and Population Health Improvement where she is developing a community based multi-sector collaborative whose aim is to go beyond healthcare treatment and address the social factors that determine individual and community health, thus working on the issues that cause health inequality, and to create systemic change that benefits the entire Durham community. In this role Ms. Fray is also developing an interactive web platform that highlights the Population Health Improvement efforts at Duke that is intended to improve the lives of people who live, work, and play in Durham. Her primary professional and research interests are working to make Health Equity a reality by improving the quality of healthcare and patient provider communication experienced by marginalized and underserved communities, working to abate issues of medical mistrust, and developing community partnerships that promote and enhance population health.