Brigette Davis
Postdoctoral Scholar, Reproductive Sciences, UC San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Brigette is a social epidemiologist, working as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Preterm Birth Initiative at UCSF. Brigette’s research focuses on the impact of structural racism on health across the life course, with a particular interest in how structural racism is conceptualized and measured in social epidemiologic research. She is also interested in studying racism as a type of trauma, social justice and community-level resilience, reproductive and perinatal health, and physiologic responses to stress. She earned with a PhD from Harvard University in Population Health Sciences. She holds an MPH from Yale School of Public Health, and a BA from Swarthmore College. She is also a RWJF Health Policy Research Scholar alumna.
Areas of Expertise
- Health and Medicine
Methodology
- Quantitative Methods
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Affiliates
- Inaugural - Graduate Student