Referent:innen: Assoc. Prof. Laura Richman, Ph.D., George Washington University Law School & Asst. Prof. Micah Lattanner, Ph.D., Santa Clara University
Interpersonal discrimination contributes to health inequalities for disadvantaged groups across numerous stigmatized identities. In this talk, Prof. Laura Richman and Prof. Micah Lattanner will discuss a theoretical framework for understanding the effects of discrimination on health and will present some recent empirical findings in support of their model. They will then discuss aspirations for the field including innovations in study design that incorporate multiple levels of discrimination (e.g., structural stigma), consider multiple identities, and measure a wider range of objective physical health outcomes. Finally, they will address policy and legal avenues to address health inequity in an administration that is hostile to these scholarly pursuits..
Prof. Laura Richman is an Associate Professor of Social Science and Health Law at the George Washington University Law School, a health psychologist, and a health policy scholar who investigates the social and environmental factors that contribute to health disparities. Relying primarily on legal epidemiology and social science methods, her research program examines the influence of social status, discrimination, gentrification, and social network characteristics on health behaviors and health outcomes.
Prof. Micah Lattanner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at Santa Clara University. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Harvard University‘s Department of Psychology. His research program examines the pathways by which stigma, operating at the structural, interpersonal, and individual levels, coalesce to affect the mental and physical health of people with concealable stigmatized identities (e.g., mental illness, sexual orientation).