Research & Publications

View my core research areas of expertise, read my publications, and peruse the manuscripts and presentations linked below.

Arts in Health, Music Cognition, & Neuroimaging

As an artist-researcher, I have developed an original method for utilizing both creative processes and research processes to inform one another and develop solutions against health inequities: my arts interventions praxis. My approach combines arts-based inquiry with mixed research methods investigating root causes of health inequities to create music interventions composed with evidence-based approaches to modulate neural activity. Thus, I develop research methods integrating public health with neuroscience and Black Feminist thought to create stress-reducing music interventions, analyze neural responses and behavioral responses to music, and create music-guided therapeutic experiences involving audience participation and music listening to reduce stress.

Thesis

  1. Dorsey, A.E. (2023). Why Not Be Free: The Black Worldmaking Praxis, Research Method, & Manifesto for Developing Music Interventions Against Stress in Black Youth (Publication No. 30488885) [Master's thesis, Dartmouth College]. Proquest Disserations and Theses Global.

Manuscripts

  1. Busch, E., Chisanthi, N., Dorsey, A., Kaiser, P. Pennacchio, C. (2020) Analysis of Modulated Medial Temporal Activity in Pinel Localizer Auditory and Non-Semantic Visual Tasks.

  2. Dorsey, A. (2019) Analysis of Amplitude Modulation Spectra of Music Across Genres: A Musical Corpus Study.

Presentations

  1. 4th Annual Dartmouth Health Arts and Humanities in Medicine Symposium, Lebanon, NH (Jan. 27, 2023) “The Breathing Suite: Composing & Researching a Music-Guided Slow Breathing Intervention against Stress”

  2. 7th International Conference of the IAMM, Athens, Greece (May 28-29, 2022), “The Music Wellness Listening Series: Using Music to Combat Racial Trauma in Black College Youth”. Poster.

  3. Mass Cultural Council UP Learning, Online (March 22, 2022), “Health Models v.s. Medical Models & How We Integrate the Arts to Improve Them”. Featured panelist.

  4. 2022 Black Queer Freedom Summit, Online (February 20, 2022), “Black Care: Sound Stories & Healing during the Pandemic”

Public Health/Health Policy

Within the field of public health, I am interested in how social inequities and everyday individual-level and population-level social interactions in the lived environments of Black and low-income communities impact disease distribution within these marginalized communities. I synthesize these commonly quantitative data with theoretical frameworks from the social sciences and humanities to develop action steps and health policy recommendations aimed at addressing the root causes of disease states and improving community health.

Manuscripts

  1. Dieguez, Y., Dorsey, A., Essery, L., Gallardo, R. (2018) Policy Brief: Fluoridation and Dental Health in the Upper Valley. Prepared in consultation to Good Neighbor Health Clinic of the Upper Valley and presented to New Hampshire and Vermont state legislatures

Cancer

My research career in cancer has spanned from the fields of biomedicine to market research. I apply my background in cancer drug discovery research and development to monitor advances in cancer drug and vaccine clinical trials, assess racial and ethnic inequalities across cancer types and severity, and develop research, marketing/business, and policy strategies for stakeholders.

Publications

  1. Gergely, J., Dorsey, A., Dimri, G., Dimri, M. (2018). Timosaponin A-III inhibits oncogenic phenotype via regulation of PcG protein BMI1 in Breast Cancer Cells Molecular Carcinogenesis 57 (7), 831-841. doi/10.1002/mc.22804

  2. Dorsey, A., Murad, F., and Bian, K. (2016) Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP Signaling in Cancer Therapy. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice: 9(5), 11-12.

Presentations

  1. NH-INBRE Annual Meeting, Bretton Woods, NH (August 14-15, 2017) “Timosaponin A-III Induces Senescence in Breast Cancers and Elicits Cell Death in Human and Murine Cancer Models in Vitro” (Poster)

  2. NIH STEP-UP Symposium, Silver Springs, MD (August 8-12, 2016) “Inducing Senescence in Breast Cancer via Timosaponin A-III” (Poster)

  3. National Capital Area Chapter of the Society of Toxicology Spring Symposium, Washington, D.C. (May 19, 2016) “Utilizing the NO-cGMP Pathway in Anti-Cancer Therapy” (Poster)