Kat Theall is a Professor at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in the new Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Science with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology. She is the Director of the Tulane Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research and Senior Director of the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute. Read more
As a social epidemiologist, her research focuses on reducing health inequities by understanding and altering built and social neighborhood environments and social policies for better health in underserved populations locally, nationally, and internationally. With a strong base in community partnered participatory research aimed at addressing social determinants of health and the processes that shape these determinants, she is involved in research, programming, and translational work for improved health and well-being through an interdisciplinary lens.
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Sean Valles
Sean A. Valles is Associate Professor and Director of the Michigan State University Center for Bioethics and Social Justice. He is author of the 2018 book, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era (Routledge Press), and co-editor (with Quill R. Kukla) of the Oxford University Press book series, “Bioethics for Social Justice”. He is a philosopher of health, focusing on the evidentiary and ethical complexities of how social context shapes health.
Kat Theall is a Professor at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in the new Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Science with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology. She is the Director of the Tulane Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research and Senior Director of the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute. Read more
As a social epidemiologist, her research focuses on reducing health inequities by understanding and altering built and social neighborhood environments and social policies for better health in underserved populations locally, nationally, and internationally. With a strong base in community partnered participatory research aimed at addressing social determinants of health and the processes that shape these determinants, she is involved in research, programming, and translational work for improved health and well-being through an interdisciplinary lens.
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Sean Valles
Sean A. Valles is Associate Professor and Director of the Michigan State University Center for Bioethics and Social Justice. He is author of the 2018 book, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era (Routledge Press), and co-editor (with Quill R. Kukla) of the Oxford University Press book series, “Bioethics for Social Justice”. He is a philosopher of health, focusing on the evidentiary and ethical complexities of how social context shapes health.
