Towards Critical Health Equity: Getting Critical About Theory, Methods, and Praxis to Advance Health Equity for All, Not Just the Privileged Some

The Health Equity Advancement Lab in the University of Iowa College of Public Health is please to announce that Lisa Bowleg, PhD, MA, will deliver the keynote address at its annual Science of Health Equity Summit. 

Dr. Bowman is a leading scholar of the application of intersectionality to social and behavioral science health research, is Professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the George Washington University (GW), and Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Core of the DC Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR). She is also the Founder and President of the Intersectionality Training Institute (www.intersectionalitytraining.org). Informed by intersectionality and critical race theory, her mixed methods research projects examine the effects of social-structural stressors (e.g., unemployment, incarceration, police brutality), intersectional stigma, and protective factors on the health of Black men at diverse intersections of socioeconomic status and sexuality. 

She has served as a principal investigator (PI) of five National Institutes of Health-funded projects and is the PI of the WK Kellogg Foundation-funded, Intersectionality Toolkit Project. She is an associate editor at AJPH and the editor of AJPH’s Perspectives from the Social Sciences section.