Overview

Madina Agénor is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in social epidemiology, sociomedical sciences, 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. Her research uses critical, intersectional, and community-centered approaches to elucidate how structural and social inequities, health care access and experiences, and laws and policies shape health inequities at the intersection of race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexuality across time and space. Her research and teaching interests include gender, sexuality, and health; race, racism, and health justice; sexual and reproductive health and justice; history and sociology of public health; and structural and community-driven approaches to health equity. Her work situates health inequities in the historical and social contexts that produce(d) them and attends to how marginalized people 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 both public 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. She completed postdoctoral research training in cancer prevention equity at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and has been Visiting Faculty at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Dr. Agénor is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board at Social Science & Medicine and Editorial Collective at Feminist Studies.

Brown Affiliations

• Behavioral and Social Sciences

Research Areas