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Jourdyn A. Lawrence
Guest AuthorJourdyn is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on addressing racism as a cause of racial health inequities. Her research interests also include methods in social epidemiology, measurement of race and racism, and the differential health impacts of social policy. Jourdyn is a doctoral candidate in the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a doctoral affiliate with the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard.