Five Insights About Reducing Health Inequities from my Research with U.S. Black LGB People and Heterosexual Men
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Date and Time
October 25, 2023
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time
General description
2023 James S. Jackson Memorial Award winner Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D., MA, will discuss her research on reducing health disparities.
About Dr. Lisa Bowleg
Dr. Lisa Bowleg is a leading scholar in the application of intersectionality to health research in the social and behavioral sciences. She is a professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences at George Washington University (GW) and co-director of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Core at the DC Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR). She is also the founder and president of the Intersectional Training Institute.
Informed by intersectionality and other critical theoretical frameworks, her mixed methods research projects examine the effects of sociostructural stressors (e.g., unemployment, incarceration, police brutality), intersectional stigma and discrimination, and protective factors on health mental health, substance use, HIV, and physical health outcomes of black American men at various intersections of socioeconomic status and sexuality. Another research program examines the effects of intersectional discrimination and protective factors among Black lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in the United States.
About the NIMH James S. Jackson Memorial Award
This award and lecture are named for the late Dr. James S. Jackson, who was the Daniel Katz Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Jackson’s research on race, ethnicity, racism, health, and mental health has had far-reaching impacts on the fields of minority mental health and disparities research. Of particular importance, he authored the National Survey of Black Americans and the National Survey of American Life, which changed the way the field examined and understood the lives and mental health of Black people in the United States.
Hosted by
The Office of Workforce Diversity and Disparities Research
