As Senior Social Scientist with the MVA, Dr. Whitted supports the Vanderbilt partner of the NCI funded U54 Meharry Vanderbilt Tennessee State Cancer Partnership designed to build research capacity between the institutions to support cancer disparity research. She also serves as evaluation and strategic planning support for the MVA programmatic activities.  She also is a member of the Center for Health Behavior and Health Education at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Previously, Dr. Whitted was a post-doctoral intramural fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch at the National Institutes of Health. She is current Human Genetics Scholar at the American Society for Human Genetics. She is also a proud alumna of the MSPH program at Meharry Medical College.