Dr. Chandra Ford is Professor of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences in the Rollins School of Public Health and of African American Studies in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University. Prior to joining Emory she founded the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health, which moved with her from Los Angeles to Atlanta in 2023. She is lead author with Derek Griffith, Marino Bruce & Keon Gilbert of Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional (APHA Press, 2024), which the American Library Association named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2020. She earned her doctorate in Health Behavior from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Social Medicine (at UNC School of Medicine) and Epidemiology (at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health), the latter as a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Kellogg Health Scholar.
Her areas of expertise include the conceptualization and measurement of race, ethnicity and racism constructs, health equity applications of Critical Race Theory, and the health and healthcare implications of racism. Her work is anchored in Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP), a 4-stage adaptation of CRT that she co-originated with Collins Airhihenbuwa to guide antiracism approaches to health equity research. Dr. Ford serves the profession widely. She is a former president of the Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues and a member of the American College of Epidemiology’s Minority Affairs Committee. She has received numerous awards for teaching and advising. Other notable honors include Russell G. Mawby People Helping People Award from the Alliance of Leadership Fellows (2023); Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association (2020), a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Black Women Physicians (2020) and a Dr. Paul Cornely Award from the Health Activist Dinner Group. She strives to support health justice efforts led by communities as evidenced from her longtime partnership with the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders.
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PL01.06 - Dorothy Nyswander Health Equity Award
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
10:08 AM – 10:10 AM PST
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
10:10 AM – 11:00 AM PST