The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program is designed to build the nation’s capacity for research, leadership and policy change to address the multiple determinants of population health.

The program enables up to 12 outstanding individuals who have completed their doctoral training to engage in an intensive two-year program at one of six nationally prominent universities.

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Sarah Burgard

Sarah Burgard’s work focuses on the way systems of stratification and inequality impact the health of people and populations. In her graduate work in sociology at UCLA, she studied educational and occupational attainment during periods of change in race-related legislation in the U.S. and South Africa and the effects of these policies on racial disparities in health.Read more »

 

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