Dr. Danielle Powell is a dual-trained Audiologist and Epidemiologist. She received her AuD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and practiced in the greater Washington D.C. area for a number of years before pursuing a PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a focus on epidemiology of aging and postdoctoral training in health services. Her work sits at the intersection of hearing health, aging, public health, and health systems. Her research focuses on health equity issues affecting older adults, particularly how hearing loss, chronic conditions common in aging like dementia and diabetes, and caregiving intersect with access to care, health system navigation, and health outcomes for aging populations. Drawing on both clinical audiology experience and population-level research, she examines barriers to care delivery and identify opportunities to better integrate sensory health into medical and policy decision-making for older Americans.

Dr. Powell has a secondary appointment at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology Division of Gerontology. She is an affiliate faculty member of the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing. She is the director of the AuD/Masters of Public Health dual-degree in collaboration with the UMD school of public health.