Hannah Kinzer is broadly interested in community-based participatory approaches to health communication and infectious disease research with a focus on advancing health equity in disease surveillance. Her work examines the intersection of racial and ethnic disparities, narratives in health communication, and disease surveillance systems with the aim of building more equitable systems for improved disease estimates and health outcomes. She has worked on a variety of interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects with scholars in public health, psychology, anthropology, journalism and communications, education, environmental health, biology, immunology, veterinary medicine, occupational health, and medicine.