Bridget Goosby: Understanding Health Inequities through a Biosocial Lens

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• Lunch will be served.
  

Bridget Goosby is a professor of sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. A sociologist and demographer, Goosby’s research focuses on health disparities, race and ethnicity, biosociology, and the life course. Her work investigates the “biosocial” pathways through which social environments and racial discrimination impact physiological health and aging. She is an elected Lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Sociological Research Association. She co-directs the LifeHD Research Lab. She received her PhD from The Pennsylvania State University in sociology and demography.

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