Dr. Aresha Martinez Cardoso

Biography

Aresha Martinez-Cardoso is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago, where she leads the Embodying Racism Lab. As an interdisciplinary population health researcher, her work investigates the intersections of race, policy, and social determinants of health by pairing epidemiological methods with social science theory. Her primary research focuses on the health and well-being of Latinx immigrant populations in the United States, and her findings have been published in leading journals such as Social Science & Medicine and Current Diabetes Reports. Dr. Martinez-Cardoso has received funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute on Aging, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others. Committed to advancing health equity, she ensures that the interventions and policies she develops center the voices of marginalized communities. She holds a Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan and an M.S. in Community Health Sciences from UCLA. Prior to her current position, she was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago.

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