Dr. Parish is dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and professor of health sciences at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was the inaugural Nancy Lurie Marks Endowed Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, at Brandeis University. Her research examines the health and financial well-being of children and adults with disabilities, and their caregiving families.
Her work, supported by more than $12 million of external funding, has resulted in more than 130 articles, book chapters, policy briefs and monographs, including more than 100 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals. Current funders include the National Institute on Child and Human Development (NIH), and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. She is currently co-principal investigator on the National Center on Parenting with Disabilities (funded by NIDILRR) and co-principal investigator of a five-year, NIH-funded R01 that is examining pregnancy outcomes of women with intellectual disabilities.
