Overview

Madina Agénor is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Agénor is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in social epidemiology, sociomedical sciences, and gender studies. Her research focuses on how structural and social inequities, health care access and experiences, and laws and policies shape health inequities at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Her research and teaching interests include gender, sexuality, and health; racism and health; intersectionality; reproductive justice; health and medical humanities; and history of public health and medicine. Her work situates health inequities in the historical and social 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. Dr. Agénor has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in public and community health and women's, gender, and sexuality studies and has held faculty appointments at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Wellesley College. 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

Research Areas