Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Overview

Madina Agénor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Agénor is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in social epidemiology and women's and gender studies. Her research focuses on the structural and social determinants of health inequities, with particular interests in racism, gender, sexuality, bodily autonomy, health care, and policy. 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. 

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