RE: Decreasing Incidence of Estrogen Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer in the United States: Trends by Race and Region.
Krieger N.
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022 Apr 04. PMID: 35377448
Nancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. She has been a member of the School's faculty since 1995. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist (PhD, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley, 1989), with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, and history of public health, plus 30+ years of activism involving social justice, science, and health. In 2004, she became an ISI highly cited scientist, a group comprising "less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers, with her ranking reaffirmed in the 2015 update." In 2013, she received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association, and in 2015, she was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship. In 2019, Dr. Krieger was ranked as being "in the top 0.01% of scientists based on your impact" for both total career and in 2017 by a new international standardized citations metrics author database, including as #1 among the 90 top scientists listed for 2017 with a primary field of public health and secondary field of epidemiology (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384)
Dr. Krieger's work addresses three topics: (1) conceptual frameworks to understand, analyze, and improve the people's health, including the ecosocial theory of disease distribution she first proposed in 1994 and its focus on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequities; and (3) methodologic research on improving monitoring of health inequities. In April 2011, Dr. Krieger's book, Epidemiology and the People's Health: Theory and Context, was published by Oxford University Press. This book presents the argument for why epidemiologic theory matters. Tracing the history and contours of diverse epidemiologic theories of disease distribution from ancient societies on through the development of - and debates within - contemporary epidemiology worldwide, it considers their implications for improving population health and promoting health equity. She is also editor of Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives (Baywood Press, 2004) and co-editor, with Glen Margo, of AIDS: The Politics of Survival (Baywood Publishers, 1994), and, with Elizabeth Fee, of Women's Health, Politics, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health (Baywood Publishers, 1994). In 1994 she co-founded, and still chairs, the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association, which is concerned with the links between social justice and public health.
Krieger N.
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022 Apr 04. PMID: 35377448
Kiang MV, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Alexander MJ, Baker JT, Buckner RL, Coombs G, Rich-Edwards JW, Carlson KW, Onnela JP.
Sci Rep. 2021 07 29. 11(1):15408. PMID: 34326370
Krieger N.
Am J Public Health. 2021 07. 111(S2):S91-S92. PMID: 34314216
Jahn JL, Krieger N, Agénor M, Leung M, Davis BA, Weisskopf MG, Chen JT.
EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Jun. 36:100901. PMID: 34041463
Krieger N.
Front Public Health. 2021. 9:655447. PMID: 33937178
Nethery RC, Rushovich T, Peterson E, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Krieger N, Waller L, Coull BA.
SSM Popul Health. 2021 Jun. 14:100786. PMID: 33981823
Krieger N, Waterman PD, Chen JT, Testa C, Hanage WP.
Lancet. 2021 04 03. 397(10281):1259-1260. PMID: 33743218
Bassett MT, Chen JT, Krieger N.
PLoS Med. 2021 Feb. 18(2):e1003541. PMID: 33539382
Marini M, Waterman PD, Breedlove E, Chen JT, Testa C, Reisner SL, Pardee DJ, Mayer KH, Krieger N.
BMC Public Health. 2021 01 19. 21(1):158. PMID: 33468085
Nancy Krieger reflects on the still-relevant themes of a paper for which she was first author three decades ago about racism, sexism, social class, and health.
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More than a dozen experts at the intersection of race and public health recently gathered for a virtual symposium to discuss structural racism’s negative impacts on health and how public health research can help inform policy change aimed…
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health professors Mary Bassett and Nancy Krieger discussed the harmful health consequences of redlining—a historic government policy that institutionalized housing discrimination against people of color across America.