Apr 10 2025

Health Justice and Critical Science in a Time of Oligarchy & Opportunistic Science Denialism: an Ecosocial Analysis

Embodied Inequalities

April 10, 2025

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM (CT)

Location

Thompson Room, Student Center West

Address

825 S. Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, IL

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Join UIC's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and the School of Public Health for an important discussion to honor National Public Health Week about the current and future state of public health with Dr. Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After the talk, Dr. Krieger will be in conversation with School of Public Health Dean Wayne Giles. A reception will follow the event.

Registration is required for the event. Please use the link below to register for this Embodied Inequalities Lecture.

This event is the third in a year of events to celebrate IRRPP's 25th Anniversary in 2025. Future events include talks by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill on September 16, and a culminating panel conversation and celebration event with former IRRPP Directors on November 6th. We hope you will join us for this and other events in our Anniversary series. You can support this event, and all the work we do at IRRPP, by making a donation at our giving page.

About the series: The Embodied Inequality: Unpacking the Impact of Race & Racism on Health series builds on important work documenting extensive health disparities. This interdisciplinary lecture series explores why race is so consequential for health outcomes and how scholars, practitioners, and community groups can intervene to improve health outcomes for vulnerable communities.

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Contact

IRRPP

Date posted

Feb 10, 2025

Date updated

Feb 25, 2025

Speakers

Nancy Krieger | Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Professor of Social Epidemiology

Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, and history of public health, plus 30+ years of activism involving social justice, science, and health. 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.