Overview

Madina Agénor is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in social epidemiology and women's and gender studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Agénor's research focuses on the structural and social determinants of health inequities, with particular interests in racism, gender, sexuality, bodily autonomy, health care, and policy. For the past 20 years, she has examined how laws and policies, socioeconomic factors, access to care, and patient-provider interactions influence sexual and reproductive health inequities among minoritized racialized, sexual orientation, and gendered groups, especially those who are multiply marginalized. Her most recent work pertains to how multiple intersecting forms of discrimination in health care and the law, including racism, sexism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism, shape the health and health care experiences of minoritized racialized, sexual orientation, and gendered groups in the U.S., especially Black and LGBTQ+ people. She situates health and social inequities in the historical contexts that produce(d) them and attends to how marginalized groups have and continue to resist systems and institutions that create higher burdens of death, disease, and illness in their communities. She holds a Doctor of Science (ScD) in Social and Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in Women, Gender, and Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a bachelor’s degree (AB) in Community Health and Gender Studies from Brown University. 

Brown Affiliations

• Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Epidemiology

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