2145 - Health Disparity

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This session focuses on the structural underpinnings of health disparities. The presenters discuss intersectional approaches to mental health, criminal justice contact in its multiple forms to population and health disparities, and the health associations of digitizing police brutality via video and audio recording equipment on mobile devices.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Session Organizer

• Marysol Asencio, University of Connecticut

Presider

• Marysol Asencio, University of Connecticut

Individual Presentations

• Stressors, Intersectionality, and Mental Health Disparities - Verna M. Keith, University of Alabama-Birmingham

• The Role of Criminal Justice Contact in Health Disparities - Hedwig Lee, Washington University St. Louis

• Digitizing Police Brutality: The Health Associations of Surveilling Police for the Highly Surveilled - Abigail A. Sewell, Emory University