Race/Ethnicity, Racism, and Population Health in the United States - The Straightforward, The Complex, Innovations, and the Future
Department & Center Events
Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Speaker
Robert A. Hummer, PhD
Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and
Fellow of the Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert A. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hummer recently served as the 2021 President of the Population Association of America (PAA), the 84th president in the history of the organization. Hummer's research program is focused on the accurate description and more complete understanding of population health patterns and trends in the United States. He is currently serving as Director of the long-running National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), which is funded by the National Institute on Aging and five co-funding institutes/offices (NICHD, NIMHD, NIDA, OBSSR, ODP). Now in its sixth wave, Add Health is one of the most innovative and well-utilized nationally representative cohort studies of Americans ever undertaken. Over his career to date, Professor Hummer has published more than 150 journal articles and book chapters in his areas of interest, with attention to health disparities both during infancy/childhood as well as across the adult life course. He is also the recent co-author of Population Health in America (University of California Press, 2019, with Erin R. Hamilton).
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