GUEST SPEAKER
David H. Chae, ScD, MA
Assistant Professor of
Epidemiology
University of Maryland School of
Public Health College Park, MD
PRESENTATION TITLE
Sick and Tired (Because) of
Racism: Socio-Psychobiological Pathways of Embodiment
DATE/TIME
Thursday, February 20, 2014
3:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
LOCATION
NIH Campus
Natcher Conference Center,
Building 45, Conference Rooms E1 and E2
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
In his presentation, Dr. David
H. Chae will describe social and psychobiological pathways of embodiment
linking racism and health. He also will discuss his research on racism at the
area-level and disparities in Black-White mortality, his findings on racial
discrimination and cardiovascular disease, and his studies integrating the role
of internalized racism as a risk factor for aging at the cellular level.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. David H. Chae is an
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Maryland School of
Public Health. His research focuses on how dimensions of racism generate racial
disparities in health. He also studies how racism at the area-level impacts
health and mortality. Dr. Chae is currently the principal investigator of a K01
career development award from the National Institute on Aging to study links
between racial minority stress and risk factors for accelerated biological
aging. He was a W.K. Kellogg Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Health Policy at the
Harvard School of Public Health and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and
Society Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco.
Dr. Chae earned a doctoral degree in Social Epidemiology at Harvard University
and an MA in Psychology from Columbia University Teachers College.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: There is
limited parking on the NIH campus. The closest Metro is Medical Center. Please
allow adequate time for security check. The seminar will be video cast for
archive purposes only. It will be available in the NIH Video archives and on
the NIMHD website after the seminar. Sign language interpreters will be
provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodations to
participate should contact Edgar Dews at 301-402-1366 or the Federal Relay at
1-800-877-8339.
