Category: Social Determinants of Health

• March 4, 2022

  Assessment of Structural Barriers and Racial Group Disparities of COVID-19 Mortality

  COVID-19 highlights disparities in healthcare access & challenges facing US counties. Our team’s article in JAMA Network Open identifies relationships between structural barriers & racial/ethnic disparities of COVID mortality using spatial analysis. Data for the whole country available by race and age is at the regional scale – not every state provides race and age…
• February 26, 2021

  Mar 5: Gentrification Seminar Series Event

  March Seminar Series: Gentrification Friday, March 5th from 2-3pm CST, Register via Zoom   Join the HeRoP Lab this Friday, March 5th for a seminar series event focused on the multidisciplinary and multidimensional topic of Gentrification. We will have presentations and discussion from a leading expert on the topic as well as emerging work from student scholars. Dr. Somashekhar will provide…
• January 7, 2021

  Feb 5: The Black Butterfly by Lawrence Brown

  The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America HEROP Seminar Series & Book Release Event Feb 5, 2020 at 2pm CST, Register via Zoom by Lawrence T. Brown (Director, The Black Butterfly Project) The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray’s…