Discipline(s):
Public Health
Area(s) of Expertise:
Racial Health Disparities, Intersection of Race and Socioeconomic Status, Race, Psychosocial and Psychobiological Stress, and Health, Measurement and Study of Racism and Health, Race, Place, and Health
E-Mail:
anjeter@berkeley.edu
Background:
Dr. Amani Nuru-Jeter, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Assistant Professor in the Divisions of Community Health and Human Development; and Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. Dr. Nuru-Jeter received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology from the University of Maryland at College Park, a Master’s of Public Health (M.P.H.) at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and was in Cohort 1 of the RWJ Health and Society Scholars Program at University of California San Francisco and Berkeley. Dr. Nuru-Jeter’s broad research interest is to integrate social, demographic, and epidemiologic methods to examine racial inequalities in health as they exist across populations, across place, and over the life-course. Dr. Nuru-Jeter considers herself to be more “exposure” than “outcomes” focused, which is consistent with her interests in examining social factors such as “race” and “social class” as exposures that serve as the foundation for the creation and preservation of health disparities across a number of outcomes. She is interested in how these social exposures determine life experiences and opportunities differently for different social groups and how those differences become embodied and impact mental and physical health and well being.
Her current program of research consists of four inter-related areas of inquiry relevant to the study of racial health disparities: 1) the intersection of “race” and socioeconomic status and its effects on mental and physical health outcomes, 2) race and psychosocial and psycho-biological stress, 3) the measurement and study of racism as a key determinant of racial health disparities, and 4) socio-environmental context (i.e., place effects) and person-environment interactions. She is Co-Investigator of the Measures of Racism Study, a project based at the University of California, San Francisco, Center on Social Disparities in Health aimed at developing measures of racism relevant to African American childbearing women for use in birth outcomes disparities research. Her research has included work on doctor-patient race-concordance and patient satisfaction and utilization of health care services; the intersection of race, socioeconomic status, and gender on risk for psychological distress, disability outcomes, and adult mortality; and racial segregation and concentrated poverty as determinants of racial health inequalities. She has also done work examining racial and socioeconomic disparities in child health and development. Dr. Nuru-Jeter is committed to mentoring students, especially students of color; enjoys spending time with her family; and is actively involved in her church.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Amani Nuru-Jeter's available publications in PubMed.
