Understudied, Underrepresented, and Underreported Women's Health Webinar
Date and Time
– July 22, 2020, 3:00 PM EDTImproving Chronic Disease Outcomes Through Approaches that Address Social Determinants of Health
Virtual only
Improving Chronic Disease Outcomes Through Approaches that Address Social Determinants of Health
Join us for the next installment of the Understudied, Underrepresented, and Underreported (U3) Women's Health Lecture Series of the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), titled "Improving Chronic Disease Outcomes Through Approaches that Address Social Determinants of Health." This virtual event will feature presentations by two panelists, Dr. Marie Lynn Miranda, of the University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Leah H. Rubin, of Johns Hopkins University, followed by a moderated Q&A session.
ORWH's U3 Administrative Supplement Program funds interdisciplinary research to address the influences of sex and gender on health at the intersection of social determinants. The program focuses on critical research gaps and opportunities in populations of women that are understudied, underrepresented, and underreported in biomedical research.
Through its U3 Women's Health Lecture Series, ORWH hosts events that are designed to stimulate interest in the complex issues affecting the health of women, such as influences of community attributes on health.
Marie Lynn Miranda, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
University of Notre Dame
Dr. Miranda's presentation title is "Social Determinants of Central Nervous System Dysfunction in Research and Clinical Practice: A Lesson from HIV." This presentation will include a discussion of these social determinants and the neurobiological mechanisms that may contribute to social determinant–related central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction. Additionally, data and discussion will be included to show how we are capitalizing on technology in the context of routine clinical HIV care to assess mental and cognitive health, which may prove useful for practicing clinicians to improve the overall health of people with HIV.
Leah H. Rubin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Rubin's presentation title is "Assessing Residential Segregation’s Role in Shaping Health and Well-Being." Racial residential segregation (RRS) has been linked to a series of health and educational disparities in the United States. Using a local spatial measure of racial isolation (RI), one dimension of RRS, she will show how patterns of segregation have changed over space and time across the continental United States. She will attempt to shift the debate around health disparities from using race, a non-modifiable factor, as an explanatory variable to the experience of racial minorities, which is modifiable, as a key driver of disparities.