Dr. Jamie Slaughter-Acey

WELLNESS

Dr. Jamie Slaughter-Acey is a maternal & child health (MCH) and social epidemiologist whose work focuses on socio-environmental and psychosocial determinants of women’s and family health across the life course, with emphasis on health equity. Her current research, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the National Institute of Health (NIH), investigates the social significance of skin color as a driver of pre-pregnancy cardiometabolic health and birth outcomes for Black women.

She is the Principal Investigator of the Interdisciplinary Research Invested in Social Equity (I-RISE) Collaboratory, which aims to integrate social science literature with epidemiologic and system science methods to the study of systemic racism, both structural and cultural, and its intersection with other aspects of social identity to create health and health care inequalities in MCH