Mercedes Bravo, PhD
Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inlcusion
Global Health Institute, Duke University
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This presentation discusses several studies examining the distribution of social and environmental exposures and resulting health outcomes in communities across the State of North Carolina.
Mercedes Bravo is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Global Health Institute at Duke University. She received her PhD from Yale University and her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Bravo’s work centers around geospatial approaches to studying structural racism, environmental exposures, health, and health disparities. She is particularly interested in how disproportionate environmental exposures – environmental racism – may underlie health disparities, and the health effects of mixtures of environmental exposures and structural racism. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a K99/R00 award from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health disparities.
The Symposium will be held on Friday, October 27, 2023, from 8:45am – 3:20pm Eastern.
Location: Field Auditorium Room 1112, Grainger Hall, (9 Circuit Drive, Durham, NC)