Dr. Thurman is an Assistant Professor and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar alumna. She joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing in August 2020 after completing her PhD at the UT Austin School of Nursing in 2018 and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in health outcomes research at the UT Austin College of Pharmacy. Her overall research interests center on studying the roots of health inequity with a particular focus on the intersections of disability and homelessness in order to understand how, when, and where to intervene to improve health and social outcomes.