*Event cancelled* Lori Hoggard
This event has been cancelled.
Cardiovascular disease remains a leading source of health inequity among women in the United States, with Black women experiencing disproportionate risk. Emerging scholarship points to the central role of social stressors—particularly racism and gendered racism—in shaping cardiovascular health among Black women. In this talk, Dr. Hoggard will focus on Black women’s experiences with racism and gendered racism, the linkages between these experiences and cardiovascular functioning, and Black women’s culturally patterned responses within interlocking systems of oppression. Attention will be given to the role of contextual factors, social roles, and expectations of strength in shaping cardiovascular processes.
Dr. Hoggard received her Ph.D. in Personality and Social Contexts Psychology from the University of Michigan. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and at the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University, having previously served on the faculty at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
Dr. Hoggard’s research examines racism as a chronic psychosocial stressor that heightens African Americans’ risk for physical (e.g., cardiovascular disease risk; dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system) and mental (e.g., depression and anxiety) health concerns. Her work focuses on (1) determining whether racism constitutes a distinct stressor for African Americans with physiological and psychological consequences that exceed those of non–race-related stressors, (2) elucidating the mechanisms linking racism to deleterious health outcomes, and (3) identifying person-level characteristics (e.g., racial identity) that may function as protective or vulnerability factors in the context of racism. Her current projects primarily examine racial inequities within the carceral state and gendered racism experienced by Black women.