Talk
Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
When
· 5:00 PM MDT
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Where
Institute of Behavioral Science, 155
Boulder, CO
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Join the CU Population Center for their Menken Lecture series, featuring Dr. Sanyu Mojola. Time: 5 – 6:30 p.m. MT Location: Jessor Building, Room 155 Refreshments and time for networking available after the talk. Topic: Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol About the Lecture: Washington, DC, the capital of the United States, has the nation’s largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nation’s worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS. These epidemics have disproportionately affected African Americans. Why and how does racial health inequality exist and persist? Starting from the city’s founding in the late 1700s until 2022, and drawing on a range of sources—including archival material, life history interviews, and census, vital statistics, and disease surveillance data—this presentation will illustrate how the physical, social, and policy design of the city contributes to the production and reproduction of disproportionate Black death. About the Speaker: Sanyu A. Mojola is the Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. An internationally recognized scholar of health inequality, her research examines how social, economic, and political systems shape health across the life course, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS, aging, race, gender, and socioeconomic inequality in Africa and the United States. She is the author of the award-winning Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS and the recently published Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol, which explores the historical roots of racial health disparities in Washington, D.C. Through mixed-methods research spanning communities in Kenya, South Africa, and the United States, her work informs policies and interventions aimed at reducing health inequities.