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Welcome to the website of Nancy Krieger, PhD, an internationally renowned social epidemiologist.

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Media

A list of Dr. Krieger’s selected media links (webinars, podcasts, interviews, etc.) is provided here (2008-present).

For COVID-19 interviews, podcasts, and other media coverage, please go to Professor Krieger’s COVID-19 publications page.

  • Krieger N, as told to Michael Fitzgerald. Nancy Krieger wrote the book on epidemiology. Here’s what’s changed since. Harvard Public Health, May 21, 2024. “When I started revising my book, Epidemiology and the People’s Health: Theory and Context, I knew the basic thrust of the original volume, from 2011, still holds. But as I know from using this text when I teach every year, the world is dynamic. Knowledge—and who produces knowledge—changes. Disease patterns change. And there was lots of new scholarship that I wanted a new edition to reflect … One such development concerns what are called the “social determinants of health” (SDOH) … The new edition of my textbook also reflects growth in work drawing on the ecosocial theory of disease distribution, which I first proposed in 1994 and have elaborated since, and on political ecology. … Two other key trends haven’t really changed. One is that social epidemiology remains a minuscule fraction of what’s going on in the public health and biomedical research fields … he overwhelming bulk of funding goes to work guided by biomedical and lifestyle theories about what causes disease …Also ongoing is the dominant framing that epidemiology is simply a set of methods … Methods alone don’t tell you what the questions are. … Epidemiology is often referred to as the core or basic science—and even foundation and cornerstone—of public health. The book is geared to people who want to learn about the contending epidemiological theories of disease distribution that inform so much of the work in—and debates involving—public health.”
    • Note: the book is available here with a 30% discount, using discount code AMPROMD9
  • Krieger N. Standing up for the people’s health: the rainbow approach to fighting for health justice. J Public Health Pol (2024). Published 08 February 2024. This article contains the brief remarks delivered upon being presented with the APHA Sedgwick Memorial Medal at the November 2023 APHA meeting. The remarks speak to the realities & challenges of the fights for health justice now & make clear the award is for all who stand up for health justice. It is freely-available (view only) at: https://rdcu.be/dydpx
    • The video of this presentation – including those present literally standing up for how they advance health justice – is available here: https://youtu.be/4Qx7iBnEmxo
  • Krieger N. Structural racism, white supremacy, and health inequities: the embodied truths sharply exposed by COVID-19 – and require structural remedies. The Berlin Lecture (invited), Humboldt University, Berlin (virtual), December 8, 2021. 
  • Book launch for “Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People’s Health.”Our first hybrid event took place at the Harvard Pop Center on October 13, 2021, as we “gathered” to celebrate the launch of Nancy Krieger’s latest book, “Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People’s Health.” About a dozen guests sat safely apart in the main conference room, watching (via a screen) the live-streaming event that was taking place upstairs in a smaller conference room. First, each event participant addressed the audience — one in the room at a time so that a mask was not necessary— followed by Nancy Krieger and Professor Evelynn Hammonds (wearing masks) having a conversation about the book and societal issues. A captioned recording of the event is available via our Media Library. You can also visit this page to see photos of the book launch. You can save 30% on book purchase with promo code AMPROMD9.
  • “Anti-Racism in Public Health Policies and Practice in the U.S.” Panel during a virtual symposium on “Anti-Racism in Public Health Policies, Practice, and Research” during  Tuesday, September 21, 2021: 10:00am to 1:00pm EST.  On Tuesday, September 21, the FXB Center hosted “Anti-Racism in Public Health Policies, Practice, and Research,” a virtual symposium. One of the FXB Center’s latest core initiatives focuses on unpacking and addressing structural racism and health in the U.S. and other parts of the globe. The goal of the FXB Center is to deepen the knowledge base and fill gaps in content and methodology, while ensuring that research and evidence is responsive to community needs and informs policymaking. The symposium aimed to launch this initiative and start a series of conversations and research on racism as a determinant of health, as a root cause of health inequalities, and as a health stressor in itself in view of improving data and practice-oriented research and informing policies and practices. The symposium panel with Dr. Krieger starts at 1:55:00.
  • “COVID-19, US health inequities, and the long reach of history.” Wednesday, June 30, 2021: 5:00pm to 6:00pm EST. Professors Evelynn Hammonds (FAS) and Nancy Krieger (HSPH) engaged in a conversation focused on the intertwined sociopolitical and socioeconomic drivers of racialized health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This talk drew on the professors’ distinct and overlapping expertise in relation to history of science, social epidemiology, and a shared commitment to understanding and addressing societal health inequities from the past to the present. The conversation was moderated by Michael Jeffries, Professor of American Studies & Dean of Academic Affairs, Wellesley College.
  • UN/EQUAL:  a series on race and inequality in America. Podcast: “Health and housing: Mary Bassett and Nancy Krieger on historical redlining.” Harvard University, June 4, 2021 (20:54 min). 
  • Krieger N. Epidemiology, structural racism, & the two-edged sword of data: structural problems require structural solutions. Invited presentation, 5th Cutter Symposium on “Racism and Epidemiology,” sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA (virtual), May 14, 2021.(Suggested Readings)
  • Book launch for 3rd book in Oxford University Press series edited by Nancy Krieger, focused on “Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health.”  New Book: Breilh J. Critical Epidemiology and the People’s Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.Launch took place on January 21, 2021, and featured Jaime Breilh and also comments from Nancy Krieger (series editor), Charles Brigg, Howard Waitzkin, and Luisa Borrell.
    • About the Book: Critical Epidemiology and the People’s Health
      • Jaime Breilh and Series edited by Nancy Krieger
      • Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health
      • Description: An indispensable read for all those seeking to address the severe problems of local and global human health and environmental crises. The widespread growth of monopolies and big business has led to a fourth industrial revolution focused on producing fast, living fast, and dying fast for the sole benefit of accelerated profit. Despite unprecedented accumulations of wealth and industry, the world has watched as indicators of income inequality–a partial parameter of social inequity–have increased, while big business, with their nearly unrestricted influence, has increasingly distorted advancements in medical research. Bold and incisive, Critical Epidemiology and the People’s Health invites readers to the next great paradigm in public health by promoting a progressive, transdisciplinary, intercultural, community-building approach radically divergent from the presiding object-based, empiricist mode of thinking. A concise overview of the Latin American Social Medicine movement, this book introduces the work of leading scientist Jaime Breilh to a global English audience, focusing on key questions such as: What are the real challenges facing critical epidemiology during the current time of immense turmoil and inequity? How can we conduct responsible and sensitive public health research? What role does epidemiology play in addressing the societal ills of both the global North and South? And how can we create a more rigorous, updated, and effective epidemiology? In addressing these questions, Critical Epidemiology and the People’s Health offers readers a clear-eyed and much-needed perspective on how to overcome Cartesian reductionism with renewed methodological tools to address the rampant growth of injustices harming our global collective health and to subvert the reigning notions of health prevention and promotion.
  • SERiouEPI. 11. The need for theory in Epidemiology – with Dr. Nancy Krieger. A podcast from the Society for Epidemiologic Research. December 14, 2020, 40 minutes.  “This episode features an interview with Dr. Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health and author of Epidemiology and the People’s Health: Theory and Context. Dr. Krieger discusses the importance of using conceptual frameworks to improve people’s health and the role of population-level determinants of health (including social determinants) in population health research.  We discuss a range of topics, including the differences between biomedical and analytics driven approaches to population health research and theory driven research, as well as the importance of descriptive epidemiology.”

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