Standing up for the people's health: the rainbow approach to fighting for health justice.
Krieger N.
J Public Health Policy. 2024 Mar. 45(1):175-178. PMID: 38332038
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 Public Health Policy. 2024 Mar. 45(1):175-178. PMID: 38332038
Rushovich T, Nethery RC, White A, Krieger N.
Am J Public Health. 2024 Mar. 114(3):300-308. PMID: 38301191
Javadi D, Murchland AR, Rushovich T, Wright E, Shchetinina A, Siefkas AC, Todd KP, Gitelman J, Hall E, Wynne JO, Zewge-Abubaker N, Krieger N.
Epidemiol Rev. 2023 Dec 20. 45(1):1-14. PMID: 37386694
Krieger N, Testa C, Chen JT, Johnson N, Watkins SH, Suderman M, Simpkin AJ, Tilling K, Waterman PD, Coull BA, De Vivo I, Smith GD, Roux AVD, Relton C.
medRxiv. 2023 Dec 14. PMID: 38168159
Watkins SH, Testa C, Simpkin AJ, Smith GD, Coull B, De Vivo I, Tilling K, Waterman PD, Chen JT, Diez-Roux AV, Krieger N, Suderman M, Relton C.
bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 08. PMID: 38105971
Gao S, Rohr JK, de Vivo I, Ramsay M, Krieger N, Kabudula CW, Farrell MT, Bassil DT, Harriman NW, Corona-Perez D, Pesic K, Berkman LF.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2023 10 28. 78(11):1983-1990. PMID: 37352164
Li Y, Coull BA, Krieger N, Peterson E, Waller LA, Chen JT, Nethery RC.
Sci Adv. 2023 08 18. 9(33):eade8888. PMID: 37595037
LeBlanc ME, Testa C, Waterman PD, Reisner SL, Chen JT, Breedlove ER, Mbaye F, Nwamah A, Mayer KH, Oendari A, Krieger N.
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2023 Nov-Dec 01. 29(6):882-891. PMID: 37487490
Watkins SH, Testa C, Chen JT, De Vivo I, Simpkin AJ, Tilling K, Diez Roux AV, Davey Smith G, Waterman PD, Suderman M, Relton C, Krieger N.
Environ Epigenet. 2023. 9(1):dvad005. PMID: 37564905
Khanna D, Krieger N, Sullivan KM.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2023 06 01. 62(6):2060-2069. PMID: 36355455
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