Weathering: How systemic injustice erodes health.

Tuesday, October 29th, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Dr. Arline Geronimus is a national public health researcher and a professor of Health, Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan, as well as a research professor at the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center.

For over thirty years, Dr. Geronimus has studied a concept she termed “weathering”, which posits that cumulative racism experienced by black women lead to inferior birth outcomes as their maternal age increases.

Since introducing the weathering hypothesis in 1992, Geronimus has extended it to implications for health across the life course for men and women from a variety of diverse, marginalized and vulnerable communities. Geronimus' 2023 book, Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society, should resonate with challenges faced by health care workers and health systems across the country.

Host or Publisher Tracy Williams-Murphy