Dr. Erin Spaulding obtained her PhD at Johns Hopkins University after receiving her BSN from the University of New Hampshire and working as an intensive care unit nurse at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Spaulding is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research; and the Director of the Long-term Wearable Study Core in the ARIC Neurocognitive Study (ARIC NCS) Renewal (2024-2028). She is also a co-investigator in the Center for Mobile Technologies to Achieve Equity in Cardiovascular Health within the American Heart Association Strategically Focused Health Technologies and Innovation Research Network.

Dr. Spaulding’s research is focused on leveraging digital health interventions for cardiovascular disease prevention and management as well as promoting digital access, digital literacy, and digital health use among older adults. In her role as Director of the Long-term Wearable Study Core in ARIC NCS, a major initiative in cardiovascular and aging research, she is leveraging digital devices for continuous, long-term data collection among the oldest old (80+ years). With her specialized knowledge on how to promote digital health use among the oldest old, Dr. Spaulding is striving to improve digital and health equity for the millions of older adults with chronic conditions.