Kristin Z. Black, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She received her MPH and PhD in Maternal and Child Health from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Black’s career commitment is to utilize community-based participatory research, mixed methods, and racial equity approaches to understand and address inequities in chronic disease and reproductive health outcomes. Read moreCurrently, her research focuses on utilizing an anti-racism lens to drive systems-level change in clinical care and higher education settings, determining how the current racial climate impacts parents’ decision-making around raising their children, providing structural competency trainings to health professionals to enhance patient-centered care in rural health settings, and exploring racial inequities in severe maternal morbidity. Additionally, she serves as a member of the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative (an 18-year-old community-medical-academic partnership), board member of Sisters Network Greensboro NC, and president-elect of the Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues.
