February 26, 2021 at 2:00 pm
*Please note: This webinar will not be recorded.
Despite the centrality of structural explanations for understanding racialized inequality, few studies of the link between race and health have focused on structural racism. Moreover, there has often been a disconnect between the conceptualization of structural racism in the race theory literature and the measurement strategies used in population health research. Dr. Tyson Brown will present his ongoing research that combines survey data from older adults nationally with state-level measures of structural racism, including political, educational, economic, judicial and housing measures. By distilling the central tenets of structural racism theories and making them more concrete in a way that improves our ability to measure structural racism, Dr. Tyson Brown’s study demonstrates the utility of macro-level approaches to understanding the deleterious impact of racism on health.
Please contact Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox, Ph.D., Associate Professor, with any questions at tkcox@ufl.edu.
Tyson Brown is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center on Health & Society at Duke University. He earned a BA and MA in sociology from the University of Florida before graduating with a doctorate in sociology from UNC-Chapel. He also did a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke and was on the faculty at Vanderbilt University for six years. His program of research examines the who, when, and how questions regarding ethnoracial inequalities in health and wealth. Brown has authored numerous articles in leading sociology, gerontology and population health journals. Professor Brown enjoys training students and teaching courses including, “Who Gets Sick and Why?,” “Race, Society & Inequality,” and “Medical Sociology.”