Causes of Death: Mechanisms of Racial Disparities in Health

Monday, October 23, 2017

David H. Chae, Sc.D., M.A.

Human Sciences Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies | Director, Center for Health Ecology and Equity Research
Auburn University

Persistent racial disparities in health represent a significant social and moral dilemma, as well as a serious public health concern. Racism is a fundamental cause of disease, and is physically embodied through social and psychobiological mechanisms. A social toxin, racism can be experienced environmentally at the area-level, as well as interpersonally through inter-personal experiences of racism, which impact biological processes underlying multiple disease pathways including via accelerated aging at the cellular level.

Video Recording:
Causes of Death: Mechanisms of Racial Disparities in Health

Papers:
Chae_Du_Bois_Rev_2011.pdf