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Health Equity Headlines

 Explore the latest public health research and insights about health equity.

Health Equity Faculty Experts

 Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of health equity? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Keshia Pollack Porter
Professor
Health Policy and Management

Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD ’06, MPH, uses research to advance policies that promote health equity, especially where people live, work, play, and travel.

Lisa Cooper
Professor
Health, Behavior and Society

Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH '93, works to advance health equity with scholarship on racial disparities in patient-physician communication and community-informed interventions.

Tanjala Purnell
Associate Professor
Epidemiology

Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD '12, MPH, uses epidemiology and health services research to advance equity in transplantation and related conditions, including kidney diseases, hypertension, and diabetes.

Darrell Gaskin
Professor
Health Policy and Management

Darrell Gaskin, PhD '95, MS, is a health economist who advances community, neighborhood, and market-level policies and programs that reduce health disparities.