Annis Golden, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the University at Albany’s Department of Communication and Associate Director of the University’s Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities. Her research interests focus broadly on barriers to accessing health care and community engaged, communication-focused strategies for addressing barriers to care among members of underserved communities. She has specific interests in women’s reproductive health disparities and in the relationship between conditions of work for low wage service sector workers and health disparities. Her recent projects include a collaborative inquiry into disparities in the local impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities of color in New York State’s Capital Region, and a second project documenting the effects of the pandemic on the work of community health workers across New York State in programs addressing maternal-child health and chronic disease health disparities. Her work on community engaged strategies for overcoming barriers to accessing reproductive healthcare services for low income women and women of color has been funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the Dyson Foundation. Her research on communication and health disparities in community settings has appeared in such journals as Social Science & Medicine, Health Communication, International Journal of Communication, and Journal of Applied Communication Research. She is currently participating in a project to identify barriers to using prenatal telehealth services and strategies for overcoming barriers in order to increase access to care for women of color, in collaboration with Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership and New York Presbyterian Hospital.