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Madina Agénor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University School of Public Health. Her interdisciplinary research employs critical, intersectional, and community-partnered approaches to elucidate the structural social factors, discrimination, laws, policies, and institutional practices that shape health inequities related to race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexuality. Dr. Agénor’s work situates health inequities in historical societal contexts that produce and attend to marginalized populations resisting systems that create higher burdens of death, disease, and illness. Over the past 20 years, her mixed-methods research has focused on examining societal factors at individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural levels that influence sexual and reproductive health equity and justice in Black, Latine, and LGBTQ+ communities. She has investigated U.S. state laws and policies linked to structural racism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism that affect health and health care inequities among U.S. adults. Currently, she is collaborating with Black and Latine community advocates to document the influence of state laws on food (in)justice in communities of color and is working on research addressing collective health and healing practices among Black women in North America and the Caribbean.
Brown University • Providence, RI
Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in public health, women's, gender, and sexuality studies.
Department: Department of Economics