Two Decades of Research on Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for the Future
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Ana V. Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology
Director of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative
Dean Emerita Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PHD, MPH, is Director of the Urban Health Collaborative and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. From 2014 to 2023, she was the Dana and David Dornsife Dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health. Trained as a pediatrician in her native Buenos Aires, she completed public health training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Diez Roux is internationally known for her research on the determinants of population health and the study of how urban environments affect health. She was Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust-funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina/Urban Health in Latin America Study) study and currently co-leads the SALURBAL-Climate Study. She is also PI of the NIH-funded Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH). She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.
Summary
This lecture will highlight why we need continued research on the social and environmental determinants of health. It will review (1) motivation (2) evidence gaps and research needs (3) methodologic challenges and (4) implications for action and for the biomedical research enterprise more broadly. The presentation will draw on several examples, several of them NIH funded.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the state of the science on social and environmental determinants of health.
- Identify key research needs
- Understand implications for action
- Understand implications for funding and organization of biomedical research
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