Kari Bail

Kari Bail, MSN, MPH, NP-C is from western Massachusetts, where she graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Cultural Anthropology. Her work after college with homeless youth in Boston and at an urban community health center inspired her to pursue a career in nursing, and her first nursing job was at a women’s clinic on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. Kari then earned dual master’s degrees in Nursing and Public Health at Emory University. Her many years of experience working with people in medically underserved communities spurred her passion for research on social drivers of health, and her recent work as a Nurse Practitioner at a medical detoxification center in Raleigh inspired her to pursue research aimed at improving the lives of people who inject drugs. Kari is interested in the impact of drug policy on women who use drugs. Her dissertation work explores the factors that influence Hepatitis C virus testing and treatment among women who use drugs in rural communities.