My research has focused on improving health care services, function, and participation for adults with cerebral palsy. My participation in an international investigator group allows me to combine the data I have gathered on secondary conditions within a small cohort of adults with CP with other international databases with similar variables so that we can make significant contributions to the literature. These results will lead to the development of more efficacious interventions to allow adults with CP to be as functional as possible for as long as possible. Equally important, these cross-sectional, and eventually longitudinal, data will assist in developing prevention programs that will better predict adult outcomes for individuals with CP and their families and eventually be instrumental in the development of programs to prevent secondary conditions.

I am also involved in health services research, utilizing large data to identify longitudinal patterns of health care utilization for adults with CP diagnosed with specific musculoskeletal conditions.

Learn more about my current research by watching this video from UNC Research.

I joined the DSHS faculty in 1986 as a visiting assistant professor while finishing my dissertation. In 1987, I was fortunate enough to be selected to fill the position full-time. Currently, I am a professor, mother, wife, sister, faculty advisor for the student Autism Speaks U chapter at UNC-CH, and active in my neighborhood association. I am an avid reader, who loves the beach and the mountains and so am very happy to live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina which is mid-way between the mountains and the beaches. I encourage you to visit (or better yet live) here in this Tar Heel side of heaven. Life is very good here.

Dr. Mundy joined the faculty of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences in 1994 after working on the Carolina Otitis Media Project for four years at The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center (FPG). She continues to see clients clinically at the Hearing and Communication Center. She is the coordinator of AuD studies, overseeing the academic component of the audiology program.