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ESIN Congratulates!
Chandra Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS
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Chandra Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS
University of California Los Angeles, School of Public Health
Dr. Ford co-authored an article with Nina Harawa published in Social Science and
Medicine (link below).
Ford, C., Harawa, N.T. A New Conceptualization Of Ethnicity For Social Epidemiologic And Health Equity Research, Social Science & Medicine (2010), doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.04.008
The article presents important considerations for conceptualizing and measuring ethnicity in the US where the populace is becoming increasingly diverse and the understandings surrounding the notion of ethnicity increasingly complex. The paper is particularly concerned with exploring how ethnicity functions socially (in the US) and how that knowledge might inform research on the social mechanisms contributing to health inequities. To view the article, please click here.
Dr. Ford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Ford earned her doctorate from the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. Prior to joining UCLA she completed postdoctoral fellowships in Social Medicine (University of North Carolina) and Epidemiology (Columbia University). Dr. Ford’s expertise is in social epidemiologic approaches to the study of health disparities/health inequities among racial and ethnic minority as well as sexual minority populations. The overarching aim of her research is to understand key mechanisms by which societal inequities contribute to disparities in human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and other health outcomes.
Dr. Ford was a 2006-2008 Scholar in the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Kellogg Health Scholars Program. She also received a 2005 North Carolina Impact Award for distinguished dissertation research benefiting residents of North Carolina.
Congratulations Dr. Ford!