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Journal article Annual review of public health · April 2025 Featured Work This article provides a guide for rigorous, theory-driven measurement approaches, proposing best practices for the scientific study of systemic racism in health research. We argue that the analytical crux of measuring systemic racism-a complex, interconnec ... Full text Cite

Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement.

Journal article Journal of health and social behavior · March 2024 Featured Work Less than 1% of studies on racialized health inequities have empirically examined their root cause: structural racism. Moreover, there has been a disconnect between the conceptualization and measurement of structural racism. This study advances the field b ... Full text Cite

Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation.

Journal article Demography · June 2023 Featured Work Racism drives population health inequities by shaping the unequal distribution of key social determinants of health, such as socioeconomic resources and exposure to stressors. Research on interrelationships among race, socioeconomic resources, stressors, a ... Full text Cite

The Future of Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream to Structural Drivers.

Journal article The Milbank quarterly · April 2023 Featured Work Policy Points Policies that redress oppressive social, economic, and political conditions are essential for improving population health and achieving health equity. Efforts to remedy structural oppression and its deleterious effects should account for its ... Full text Cite

Improving The Measurement Of Structural Racism To Achieve Antiracist Health Policy.

Journal article Health affairs (Project Hope) · February 2022 Featured Work Antiracist health policy research requires methodological innovation that creates equity-centered and antiracist solutions to health inequities by centering the complexities and insidiousness of structural racism. The development of effective health policy ... Full text Open Access Cite

Empirical evidence on structural racism as a driver of racial inequities in COVID-19 mortality.

Journal article Frontiers in public health · January 2022 Featured Work ObjectiveThis study contributes to the literature by empirically testing the extent to which place-based structural racism is a driver of state-level racial inequalities in COVID-19 mortality using theoretically-informed, innovative approaches. Full text Open Access Cite

Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research.

Journal article Journal of health and social behavior · September 2021 Featured Work This article advances the field by integrating insights from intersectionality perspectives with the emerging literatures on structural racism and structural sexism-which point to promising new ways to measure systems of inequality at a macro level-to intr ... Full text Cite

Racial Stratification, Immigration, and Health Inequality: A Life Course-Intersectional Approach

Journal article Social Forces · May 14, 2018 Featured Work While health inequalities related to race/ethnicity, nativity, and age are well documented, it remains unclear how these axes of stratification combine to shape health trajectories, especially in middle and late life. This study addresses gaps in the liter ... Full text Open Access Cite

Using Multiple-hierarchy Stratification and Life Course Approaches to Understand Health Inequalities: The Intersecting Consequences of Race, Gender, SES, and Age.

Journal article Journal of health and social behavior · June 2016 Featured Work This study examines how the intersecting consequences of race-ethnicity, gender, socioeconomics status (SES), and age influence health inequality. We draw on multiple-hierarchy stratification and life course perspectives to address two main research questi ... Full text Cite