Dr. JL Borgogna is the Associate Course Director, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, and Assistant Professor at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and an Assistant Professor at the Weissman Hood Institute. She earned her PhD in Microbiology from Montana State University. Her research takes a collaborative, community-centered, and culture-informed approach to understanding how lifestyle practices, psychosocial stress, and social determinants shape the urogenital microenvironment and ultimately influence health outcomes. Researchers in the JL Borgogna lab investigate this by applying machine learning to clinical data to identify multi-omic biomarkers of urogenital health, which are then validated through integrated metabolite–microbiota–cell culture assays. A central focus of this work is advancing health equity by serving underrepresented populations, including postmenopausal women and Native American communities.
