Jax is a Doctoral student interested in chronic pain, chronic illness, and racial and ethnic differences in their prevalence and effects. Currently she is working on computing an index of allostatic load in the UK Biobank cohort to examine the relationship between allostatic overload and chronic pain. In the future, she hopes to explore racial and ethnic differences in the interactions between chronic pain, chronic illness, and socioeconomic status and identify factors contributing to their development.