Dr. Julia Raifman
Symposium Speaker
Dr. Julia Raifman conducts research on health and social policies drivers of population health and health disparities. She leads the COVID-19 US State Policy database, tracking the dates states changed more than 200 COVID-19 prevention policies and policies to prevent economic precarity during the COVID-19 pandemic (statepolicies.com). During the pandemic, she has conducted research on unemployment insurance, minimum wage, and paid sick leave as well as mask and physical distancing policies to prevent COVID-19. She also evaluates how historical and modern-day structural racism drive racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 and food and housing insecurity during the pandemic.