Dr. Schulz received her Ph.D. in Sociology and M.P.H. from the University of Michigan . Her research focuses on social factors that contribute to health with a particular focus on health disparities and urban communities. Current research efforts focus on understanding social determinants of women’s health in urban communities; the contributions of social and environmental factors to racial and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease, social aspects of community and their relationship to health, and interventions designed to increase access to healthy foods in urban areas. In addition, she has been involved in projects concerned with: the effects of colonization on the health of Native Americans; community-based approaches to research and community change; the evaluation of community partnerships for health promotion; and the role of grassroots environmental groups in addressing issues of environmental degradation and economic development. She is Associate Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, and Co-Director for the NIH funded "Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health". Dr. Schulz co-facilitates the CRECH NIH predoctoral seminar on ethnicity, culture and health, and has taught courses on qualitative research methods and participatory action research. Dr. Schulz's work appears in Social Problems, The Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science and Medicine, Health Education and Behavior, The Annual Review of Public Health, and Health Education Research.

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