Celeste Torio, Ph.D., M.P.H. is currently the Director for the Division of Priority Populations in the Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Population (OEREP) at the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ). She also serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at The Catholic University of America (CUA). Her research interests focus on the impact of social determinants of health so as to better understand the causes and determinants of human flourishing within the context of healthcare services, and on physical and mental well-being. She received a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health, and a PhD in Health, Behavior and Society from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.