Doctoral students awarded stipends for social equity, health equity projects
Students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health make up more than a third of a group of doctoral students studying social sciences across Harvard who’ve been awarded stipends for dissertation projects related to social equity or health equity.
The awards come from Harvard Kennedy School’s Angelopoulos Professor of Public Policy Marcella Alsan and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy’s Health Inequality Lab. Twenty-eight Harvard University Ph.D. students are receiving stipends of up to $5,000 each. All Harvard Ph.D. students earn their degrees from Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin School of Arts and Sciences but they may study at different Schools throughout the University; of the group receiving stipends, 10 study at Harvard Chan School.
Students and their projects include:
Erin O’Dwyer, “Historical Black land loss and contemporary food security racial inequities”
Dougie Zubizarreta, “Advancing understanding of intersectional mental health inequities and their structural determinants: A social epidemiologic approach”
Jasmine Graves, “Building a requiem for Rikers Island: Examining the carceral harms experienced by people with New York City’s penal colony”
Dorit Stein, “Modeling health equity and financial risk protection impacts of cardiovascular disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries”
Taylor Robinson, “Social and structural drivers in sleep health”
Sarthak Agarwal, “Understanding enablers and barriers in implementing universal free school meals in the US to achieve social and health equity”
Mai-Han Trinh, “Mental health and mental healthcare among transgender adults in the United States”
Zichao Li, “Decoding social patterns in the effect of health misinformation on COVID-19 vaccination outcomes”
Artair Rogers, “Interrogating settler colonial racial capitalism and the U.S. health system’s approach to community health investment”
Whitney Wells, “The role of sociodemographic factors in the association between parenthood and health, and the potential for family support policies to support parents’ health and health equity”
Several of the grant recipients were featured in a video produced by the Health Inequality Lab. One of the Harvard Chan students, Robinson, said that the funding would enable her to efficiently analyze large-scale sleep health data and present her findings at conferences. “I’m deeply grateful for this funding, especially at a time when health equity research is more vital than ever,” Robinson said. “Support like this is essential to advancing public health leadership.”
Read a Harvard Gazette article: Ph.D. students awarded more than $130,000 in Social Equity and Health Equity stipend funding
