My scholarship contributes to a body of knowledge that links structural racism to health in a tangible way, identifies opportunities for intervention, and dismantles the systems, structures, and institutions that allow inequities to persist. Some examples of the research projects I’m currently leading or involved with:

 

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• I am the Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
   

• I am also the Principal Investigator for the Dignity in Childbirth and Pregnancy Project: Capacity Building for Health Care Organizations and Providers funded by the California Health Care Foundation and in collaboration with Diversity Science. For more information or questions related to this project sign up here: [I need to get this link will send to you…]

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• Confronting Racism in Reproductive Health, Society of Family Planning Changemakers in Family Planning (PI: Dr. Rachel Hardeman)

 

• Structural Racism and Income Equality: Associations with Adverse Birth Outcomes and NICU Stays (PI: Amanda Nickel, Children’s Hospital)

 

• The Effects of Racism and Discrimination on Children’s Health and Development: Implications for screening and intervention (PI: Alicia Kunin-Baston)

 

• Police Violence and Reproductive Justice: Exploring the health impacts for Black Women living in a community where a high-profile event of police violence has occurred (PI: Dr. Rachel Hardeman)

 

• Improving Equity in Birth Outcomes, A Community-Based Culturally-Centered Approach an RWJF funded Project. (PI: Dr. Rachel Hardeman)