ABOUT
“You Can’t Improve What You Don’t Measure.”
A lag in research on structural racism as a root cause of health inequities may be due, in part, to difficulties in measuring or quantifying the degree to which it exists within a community or society.
Valid, replicable and theoretically sound measures of structural racism are urgently needed in order to build evidence of its harms to population health and to identify pathways for intervention to advance racial health equity.
The Objective of the Measuring & Operationalizing Racism to achieve Health Equity (MORhELab) led by Dr. Rachel Hardeman is to: Explore and Develop ways to operationalize and measure structural racism for the purposes of empirical, quantitative investigation.
Rachel R. Hardeman PhD, MPH
Principal Investigator:
Associate Professor:
Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
directory.sph.umn.edu/bio/sph-a-z/rachel-hardeman
Founder & Lead Scientist:
Race Against the Machine
Rebekah Israel Cross, MA
PhD Student:
Graduate Student Researcher
Center for the Study of Racism
Community Health Sciences
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Health Policy Research Scholar:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Courtney Sarkin, MBE
Ph.D. Student:
Division of Health Policy and Management
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/courtneysarkin/
J'Mag Karbeah, MPH
Doctoral Student:
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Division of Health Policy and Management
MPC Population Studies Trainee
2019-20 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow
Brittney Butler, MPH
Epidemiology PhD Student
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Policy Research Scholar
Graduate Research Associate:
Brigette A. Davis, MPH
RWJF Health Policy Research Scholar
PhD Candidate, Population Health Sciences
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
BRIGETTE'S BIO
Alexandria Kristensen-Cabrera
M.D.-Ph.D. Student
University of Minnesota Medical School
ALEXANDRIA'S BIO
Marie V. Plaisime, M.P.H
PhD Candidate | Howard University
Department of Sociology & Criminology
President | Organization of Graduate Sociologists (OGS)
Howard University Just-Julian Graduate Research Scholar
A Health Policy Research Scholar
Raquel Motachwa
Lab Coordinator
MPH Candidate, Public Health Administration and Policy
The Division of Health Policy and Management
University of Minnesota