Dr. Gabriella Pandolfelli is the founding program coordinator of the Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries. She is actively involved in interprofessional education (IPE) and research projects that include a commitment to building successful community-academic partnerships, community engagement and participatory action research, and team-based IPE to improve health equity and access to resources while demonstrating community impact. She is committed to research that focuses on cardiovascular disease and hypertension prevention interventions in community-based settings that promote access to care and health equity such as public libraries. She is the Director of Epidemiology and Public Health Analytics at Catholic Health.