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Rebekah Israel Cross is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in Public Health Sciences. Her research utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the impact of structural inequality on health outcomes. Specifically, she focuses on conceptualizing and measuring racism, unraveling the interplay between racism and housing, and how these factors perpetuate health disparities. Her work emphasizes the need for public health to address and combat systemic racism. Before her role at the University of Chicago, she was a fellow in the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she worked across the Health Behavior and Maternal and Child Health departments. Rebekah earned her PhD in Community Health Sciences at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, where she also minored in Urban Planning. She holds a BA in Sociology and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master’s in Sociology from American University. Her professional contributions include leading initiatives at the Black AIDS Institute, aimed at enhancing the capacity of the Black public health workforce through training in biomedical interventions to improve HIV care outcomes.
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