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Understanding and Addressing the Contributions of Racial Residential Segregation to Cardiovascular Disease Risk
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Kiarri Kershaw, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, will focus on understanding the contributions of the social environment to cardiovascular health and health disparities. As a social epidemiologist, she explores the health impacts of providing individuals with opportunities to move to neighborhoods with more health-promoting resources and improving access to resources in segregated neighborhoods. Her research has included using secondary data to examine cross-sectional and longitudinal association of racial/ethnic residential segregation with obesity and cardiovascular disease. More information...
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