H&SS Affiliated Faculty awarded NIH funding to continue their research on the social determinants of health:
Naa Oyo A. Kwate, PhD,was recognized with the prestigious NIH New Innovator Award for Exceptional Creativity and Promise, for her research on the negative effects of multiple levels of racism on African Americans' health. Dr. Kwate is also conducting research on racism as part of a seed grant funded by the HSS program
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Peter A. Muennig, MD, MPH, recently presented with the ASPH-Pfizer 2008 Early Career in Public Health Award, has just received funding from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities for his project "A dataset for the study of the social determinants of health" linking General Social Survey data and the National Death Index. This research is a continuation of Dr. Muennig's project originally supported with an H&SS seed grant More