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
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.
Focusing on the link between democratic governance, climate change, and health inequities
Faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, has shared her viewpoint in this piece published in the Journal of Public Health Policy that calls for those in the public health and medical field, in particular, to take practical action steps to better integrate the realms of democratic governance, climate change, and health inequities. She outlines actionable steps, along with information-rich resources, in a table. Photo: Alisdare Hickson on Flickr
When it comes to lowering infant mortality rates in LMICs, a hopeful future may depend on looking back
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.
Krieger: Censorship of seven words by Trump’s CDC could well cost American lives
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, has penned an op-ed in the New York Daily News that warns about the potential lethal consequences of censorship in a public health context.
Calling all sports stats “geeks”
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger and Associate Director Jason Beckfield have penned this op-ed in nydailynews.com that calls for sports stats geeks to put their quantitative skills to use to improve U.S. stats on deaths and injuries due to law enforcement.
Nancy Krieger on hate crimes as public health issue in editorial
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, follows up on her recently published piece in The Lancet on structural racism and health inequities in this bmj opinion.
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.
Krieger’s opinion in Boston Globe: Federal lawmakers should be forced to live with their public health policy decisions — literally
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, makes a proposal to federal legislators that brings home the impact of their slashed environmental and public health regulations in this op-ed in the Boston Globe.