Ellesse Akre
Dr. Ellesse-Roselee L. Akré is a health services researcher whose research portfolio focuses on health inequities, intersectionality, and access to health care. Her program of research employs tools from health services research and population health science to demonstrate how macrolevel systems like heterosexism, sexism, and racism are determinants of health inequities. She leverages the frameworks of critical race theory and intersectionality perspective to quantitatively study how social, demographic, and policy contexts shape health and health care disparities for Black people, people of color, and LGBT populations.