In 2021, the Detroit City Council joined over 240 municipal, county and state bodies in declaring racism a public health crisis. In a city whose Black residents experience all-cause, maternal, infant, and Covid-19 mortality rates substantially higher than those experienced by white residents and higher than those of the nation as a whole, Detroit’s declaration […]
Author Archives: Amy J. Schulz, PhD, MPH Simone Alhagri, MPH
Amy J. Schulz, PhD, MPH is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She conducts empirical research on social and physical environmental inequities and their links to racial, ethnic and socioeconomic inequities in health.
Simone Alhagri, MPH is a research associate in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her work focuses on maternal and child health, health care disparities, social determinants of health, and interventions to promote health equity.