The New Yorker magazine features social epidemiologist’s perspective on health inequalities exposed by COVID-19 pandemic

Nancy Krieger shares her perspective as a social epidemiologist in this Q&A in The New Yorker on everything from the difference between inequities in health status vs. inequalities in health care (and what happens when they collide) to the eco-social theory of disease distribution, to the history of social epidemiology, dating back to 1848.

Factoring in structural inequalities in fight against COVID-19

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Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger is an author of a pre-print article that examines the U.S. county by county to identify those most vulnerable to the risks of COVID-19 and in greatest need of interventions aimed at minimizing the epidemic’s toll on people’s health and its burden on the healthcare infrastructure.

When it comes to lowering infant mortality rates in LMICs, a hopeful future may depend on looking back

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Harvard Pop Center faculty members Nancy Krieger, PhD, and S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and lead author Amiya Bhatia, a Harvard Pop Center graduate student affiliate, have authored a paper published in The Milbank Quarterly that makes the case for why low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) should take a deeper look into early 20th-century United States history for some constructive ways to lower their infant mortality rate.

Study finds populations targeted during presidential campaign — and beyond — have had an increase in preterm births in New York City

Nancy Krieger, PhD, is lead author on a short report published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health that has found an increase in preterm births among immigrant Hispanic and Muslim women during a period post-inauguration of President Trump. Learn more in this piece in Vox. The findings suggest that sociopolitical stressors may contribute to risk of preterm birth among targeted populations.

Nancy Krieger on structural racism & health inequities in US

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, is an author of this conceptual report published in The Lancet on the role that structural racism (how racial discrimination is fostered through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice) plays in racial health inequities.