The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health invites you to join us for "Justice, Critical Science & the Two-Edged Sword of Data: Structural Problems Require Structural Solutions" on Wednesday, March 8, 1–2 p.m. PST.

In honor of International Women’s Day, IIGH will host Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. With more than 30 years of activism involving social justice, science and health, Professor Krieger will share her work on addressing the social determinants of population health and health inequalities through critical thinking, theory, research and data.

This virtual dialogue will be moderated by Sofia Gruskin, Director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health.

Speaker:

Nancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist (PhD, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley, 1989), 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. In 2004, she became an ISI highly cited scientist, a group comprising “less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers,” with her ranking reaffirmed in 2015 and 2022. In 2013, she received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association, and in 2015, she was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship, and re-awarded its renewal in 2020. In 2019, Dr. Krieger was ranked as being “in the top 0.01% of scientists based on your impact” for both total career and in 2017 by a new international standardized citations metrics author database, including as #1 among the 90 top scientists listed for 2017 with a primary field of public health and secondary field of epidemiology (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384). In 2021, she was appointed as member of the UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Slave Route Project: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage.