David R. Williams | |
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Born | David Rudyard Williams June 12, 1954 Aruba raised in Saint Lucia |
Citizenship | St Lucian, American |
Alma mater | Caribbean Union College (B.Th. Hons.), Andrews University (M.Div.), Loma Linda University (M.P.H.), University of Michigan (M.A., Ph.D.) [1] |
Known for | Research on race and health |
Awards | 2004 Decade of Behavior Research Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology Public health |
Institutions | Harvard School of Public Health Harvard University University of Michigan Yale University |
Thesis | Socioeconomic Differentials in Health: The Role of Psychosocial Factors (1986) |
Website | scholar |
External videos | |
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"Covid-19: Why race matters for health", Knowable Magazine, 06.03.2021 | |
How racism makes us sick, TEDMED, November 2016 | |
HGP10 Symposium: Genomics and Disparities in Health and Health Care - David Williams, April 30, 2013 |
David Rudyard Williams SLMM (born 1954 in Aruba)[2] is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University.