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.
Could virtual reality-aided “body swapping” help to reduce racism?
Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Courtney Cogburn, PhD, will partner with Stanford University in an upcoming research project aimed at giving people a better understanding of systemic racism through the use of virtual reality. Cogburn explains in this piece in Maclean’s.
Courtney Cogburn in ScienceFriday podcast on health effects of racism
Courtney Cogburn, PhD, a Harvard RWJF HSS program alumna, is featured in this ScienceFriday podcast on the impact that racism can have on health and life expectancy.
Following ban of Donald Sterling from the NBA, Harvard sociologist David Williams comments on racial inequalities in The Montreal Gazette
The ban of Donald Sterling from the NBA for racist comments has generated increased conversation about the presence and impact of racism in the U.S. The Harvard Pop Center’s affiliated faculty member sociologist David Williams is one of several experts who share their insights in this feature in The Montreal Gazette.