March 12 • 3:30 - 5:00pm
Online & in-person at Moss Auditorium
(College of Medicine Research Building, 909 S. Wolcott Ave., Chicago)
In this talk, titled "Causes of Death: Macro-Social Determinants of Health, the Biological Embedding of Racism, & Next Steps in Anti-Racism Research," Tulane University's David Chae will discuss a social-ecological, psychobiological, and developmental approach to studying racism and implementing anti-racist interventions. Racial inequities in health are caused by racism and are a social and moral dilemma, as well as a serious public health concern. In addition to causing direct physical damage, racism is also embodied covertly, including via biological processes underlying multiple disease pathways such as accelerated aging at the cell level.
David Chae, ScD, MA is the Director of the Society, Health and Racial Equity (SHARE) Lab & Associate Dean for Research at Tulane University