Elena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and a methodologist in the ACCORDS Qualitative and Mixed Methods Core. She also serves as Associate Director of the Partners Engaged in Achieving Change in Health network (PEACHnet), a community- and practice-based research network for Colorado's western slope. She completed her MSPH and PhD in the Social and Behavioral Interventions program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. More recently she trained in Dissemination & Implementation Science (D&I) via the ACCORDS D&I certificate program and completed a 3-year primary care research fellowship.  Elena's research focuses on the role of primary care in addressing health-related social needs and multi-sector efforts to improve food security. Her interests include innovative mixed methods analysis approaches like Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Coincidence Analysis.