David H. Chae, Sc.D., Ph.D.

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Discipline(s):
Social Epidemiology

Area(s) of Expertise:
Minority Health, Health Disparities, Social Determinants

Background:
David H. Chae, Sc.D., is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Heath and Society Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, San Francisco site. Broadly, his professional goals are to make contributions to research on racial/ethnic disparities in health and social determinants of intra- and inter-group patterns in health. More specifically, his research interests focus on racism, structural and interpersonal forms of discrimination, and racial/ethnic identity as determinants of health. His dissertation examined the influence of unfair treatment, racial/ethnic discrimination, and ethnic identification in relation to substance use outcomes among Asian Americans. Dr. Chae is currently interested in psychobiological stress mechanisms involved in the embodiment of social hazards, and is the principal investigator of a study examining associations between racial discrimination, racial identity, and cardiovascular health outcomes among African Americans.

Dr. Chae received his Doctor of Science degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, with a major in Social Epidemiology and interdisciplinary concentration in Women, Gender, and Health. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago where he majored in Psychology; and Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Columbia University, Teachers College. He was also a W.K. Kellogg Fellow in Health Policy, a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Center for Multicultural Mental health Studies, and was a researcher at the University of Washington.

Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of David H. Chae's available publications in PubMed.