Nancy Krieger is an American epidemiologist who is professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Nancy Krieger | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nancy Jane Krieger |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University University of Washington University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Ecosocial theory Race and health in the United States |
| Awards | United States Department of Health and Human Services Innovation in Prevention Award (2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Epidemiology Public health |
| Institutions | Harvard School of Public Health |
| Thesis | Race, class, and health: studies of breast cancer and hypertension (1989) |
Education and career
editRaised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,[1] Krieger studied biochemistry as an undergraduate at Harvard University and earned a master's degree at the University of Washington.[2] Krieger received her PhD in epidemiology from University of California, Berkeley in 1989. She joined the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1995. In 2004, she became an ISI highly cited researcher.[3]
Research
editKrieger has conducted research on the relationship between racism, social class, and health in the United States since the 1980s.[4][2] In 2008, she conducted research that found that socioeconomic disparities in mortality rates had narrowed from 1966 to 1980, but had widened since then.[5] In 2015, she and her colleagues published a paper arguing that law enforcement-related deaths in the United States should be a "notifiable condition", meaning that public health workers would have to report such deaths to a state or local agency.[6]
Personal life
editKrieger is one of two children of endocrinologist Dorothy Krieger and neurologist Howard Krieger. Her brother, Jim Krieger, is the director of Healthy Food America.[2][7]
References
edit- ^ Drexler, Maxine (April 2006). "The People's Epidemiologists". Harvard Magazine.
- ^ a b c Drexler, Madeline (March–April 2006). "The People's Epidemiologists". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "Nancy Krieger". Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ Silverstein, Jason (12 March 2013). "How Racism Is Bad for Our Bodies". The Atlantic. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ Pear, Robert (23 March 2008). "Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for the Nation". New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ Kodjak, Alison (8 December 2015). "Congress Still Limits Health Research On Gun Violence". NPR. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "Our Staff". Healthy Food America Website. Retrieved 27 May 2017.