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Achieving Health Equity: Student Research on Black Health

Date: Friday April 30, 2021

Time: 1:00pm EST

Location: Zoom

Registration:  

Interested in research opportunities for students? Concerned about health equity or curious about what health equity means? Wondering what training to be a health equity researcher could entail? Attend a panel of current and former trainees at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú’s Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) as they discuss their path to health equity research and their current work focused on the health of the Black population.

Health equity research aims to eliminate inequities in health by ensuring everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their optimal level of health. Gaps in health status between the Black population and other racial groups in the United States have persisted for centuries. These inequities exist across all dimensions of society including wealth attainment, housing, mass incarceration, education, health, and result in higher rates of illness, disease, and premature death. Health inequities, describing disparities that are unfair and reflect injustice, often include maldistribution of the opportunities and resources necessary to attain optimal health. April is National Minority Health Month, which is an opportunity to illuminate health inequities, and innovative health equity research efforts to eliminate gaps in health.

This webinar will focus on the work of student health equity researchers to eliminate health inequities in Black health. This event is intended for students of all levels with an interest in health equity research. No prior knowledge of health equity research is required, and students unfamiliar with the field are encouraged to attend. Attendees will hear from current and former student health equity researchers about their journey along diverse training paths as well as their scholarly contributions and future research plans. Panelists will discuss lessons learned, opportunities for pursuing health equity research as a student, and responses to audience questions.

Please join the Center for Health Equity Transformation as we observe National Minority Health Month by highlighting student health equity research.

Panelists

Myles D. Moody, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

College of Arts and Sciences

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Myles Moody, PhD, is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. His research interests revolve around racial disparities in health, and his research examines how vicarious racism as a social stressor affects the health of Black Americans over the life course. His previous work has been published in the Journal of African-American Studies, the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Society and Mental Health, Addictive Behaviors, Health Promotion Practice, and Aging and Health.

He graduated with a BA in Sociology from Morehouse College in 2013 before earning a MA in Sociology from the University of Memphis in 2015. In May 2020, he graduated with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Moody has received support for his research through the following organizations:

• American Sociological Association (ASA) Minority Fellowship Program (2019-2020)

• Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET), University of Kentucky

• Disparities Researchers Equalizing Access for Minorities (DREAM) Scholars Program (UL1TR001998), University of Kentucky

• Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship to attend the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Doctoral Scholars Program

Dr. Moody was a founding Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET)

Alexis James

Junior

Human Health Sciences Major

College of Health Sciences

2020 SPARK Scholar, Center for Health Equity Transformation

Alexis James Junior Human Health Sciences Major College of Health Sciences 2020 SPARK Scholar, Center for Health Equity Transformation Alexis James is a junior at the University of Kentucky majoring in Human Health Sciences and double minoring in biology and Islamic Studies on a pre medicine track and is a SPARK scholar. She is also the Director of Engaging Issues for ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú’s Student Activities Board and is a member of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú’s NAACP. She is originally from Chicago and was born and raised on the city’s south side. Her project, Exploring the association between depression, traumatic life events, and coping among African American men, was complete under the instruction of Dr. Danelle Stevens-Watkins. After undergrad she plans to continue to medical school in the hopes of becoming an oncologist and eventually a professor of medicine.

Sidney Bibbs

Junior

Medical Laboratory Science Major, Double minor in Spanish and Viola Performance

College of Health Sciences

 2019 SPARK Scholar, Center for Health Equity Transformation

Sidney Bibbs Junior Medical Laboratory Science Major, Double minor in Spanish and Viola Performance College of Health Sciences 2019 SPARK Scholar, Center for Health Equity Transformation Sidney is a junior at the University of Kentucky, majoring in Medical Laboratory Science and minoring in Spanish and Viola Performance. As a participant in the Students Participating as Ambassadors for Research in Kentucky (SPARK) program, she investigated the barriers and motivators to blood donation within the Black community of Lexington. Through this research, she aimed to emphasize the important role blood donation has in the treatment of sickle cell anemia, a hemoglobinopathy that predominantly affects the Black population. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Sidney plans to attend a Pathologist's Assistant graduate program.

Moderator

Madeline Dunfee

MD/Ph.D. Candidate

Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

College of Public Health

About CHET

The mission of the Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) is to foster innovative, transdisciplinary and impactful research and training to improve the health of the most vulnerable residents of Kentucky and beyond. We achieve this through training the next generation of health equity researchers in a rigorous, inclusive, and congenial environment. To learn more about CHET and opportunities for health equity research, join our student listserve at and visit our website: