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• Dr. Kipp received his BS in Environmental Health from Colorado State University. He completed an internship with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in the zoonotic disease section of the Disease Control and Environmental Health Division and then worked for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention assisting with West Nile Virus surveillance. He went on to receive his MSPH in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina in 2006, followed by a PhD in Epidemiology in 2009. He immediately joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University as one of the inaugural teaching faculty in Vanderbilt's doctoral program in Epidemiology which enrolled its first students in 2009. He taught epidemiologic methods for 10 years before leaving to join the faculty at East Carolina University in the Department of Public Health.
  His research interests are broadly in the social and behavioral factors that affect access, retention, and adherence to care for various marginalized populations, including people with HIV, Tuberculosis, or opioid use disorder. His work has included measurement of HIV stigma and its role as a barrier to retention in care and treatment adherence; measurement of TB stigma and its role as a barrier to retention in care and treatment adherence; an ongoing project assessing substance use stigma and other aspects of social disruption that impact initiation and retention of medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder; and trying to ascertain the impact of marijuana use, including motivation for use, on retention in care for people living with HIV.
  At Vanderbilt University Dr. Kipp taught epidemiologic methods to epidemiology doctoral students, an introduction to epidemiology course for Doctorate of Nursing Practice students, and served as a mentor and advisor for students in the Global Health MPH program. He now teaches Introduction to Epidemiology to ECU students in the MPH program and the Public Health Foundations and Practice certificate program.