Presenter: Jaime- Slaughter Acey, Ph. D., Epidemiologist and Social Justice Warrior for Health Equity, Associate professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Jaime-Slaughter Acey is a maternal and child health (MCH) and social epidemiologist whose work focuses on social environmental and psychosocial determinants of women's and family health across the lifecourse with emphasis on health equity. Her research emphasizes the use of socio ecological and life course approaches with intersectionality theory to study and address the ways that systemic racism, both structural and cultural, intersects with other aspects of social identity to create inequalities in health outcomes.
Expertise:
Colorism (skin tone bias) and Appearance- based bias
Measurement of racism and discrimination
Impact of racism on maternal and infant health
Systemic racism (structural, cultural and intergenerational)
2 CEs. This seminar fulfills the Board of Social Work Cultural Responsiveness licensure requirement.
Fee: $ 25.00
