I'm a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. My research, generally, aims to clarify how structural racism shapes population health. That's: my work investigates how macro-level economic, social and ideological systems---and the institutions that comprise them---are arranged in ways that confer significant advantages for individuals interpreted as white; penalties for individuals interpreted as non-white; and how these systematically produced rewards/risk coalesce and generate health inequity among individuals. This work includes: (1) studies that examine how the actions of race-cognizant institutions (like law enforcement agencies) contribute to health disparities; (2) studies that consider how multiple racialized systems interact to gate access to critical health contexts; and (3) projects that examine how structural racism enters into and distorts social processes that are foundational to well-being (e.g., the association among education and health). I specialize in statistical methods---particularly Bayesian approaches and techniques for drawing causal(-ish!) inferences from observational data.
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