Facing Inequalities: Making the Invisible Visible
Health Behavior and Health Promotion seminar series event will feature Stephanie Cook of New York University.
About
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the US, disproportionately affecting racially and ethnically marginalized communities. Traditional risk frameworks, focused on behaviors like smoking, diet, and sleep, overlook how systems of power and oppression shape these risks. This presentation applies an intersectional lens to examine how race, gender, sexuality, and class converge within spatial and social contexts to influence cardiovascular health among young sexual and gender minorities of color.
Dr. Stephanie H. Cook is a New York University James Weldon Johnson Professor, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, and Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is also the Director of the Attachment and Health Disparities Research Lab (AHDL). Her overarching research focus is to understand how structural- and individual-level minority stressors contribute to health across the lifespan. Her substantive methodological and statistical focus is on the development and application of intensive longitudinal study designs (e.g. ecological momentary assessment and daily diaries) for determining the ways that dynamic changes in features of minority stress are associated with changes in risk behaviors and physical health among racial/ethnic and/or sexual minority young adults. She is currently a PI for three NIH R01 research projects (project 1, project 2, and project 3), two of which utilize novel methodologies to assess the linkages between intersectional discrimination and cardiovascular disease among sexual and gender minorities of color.