Epi Seminar Series - Dr. Marilyn Thomas.

We are delighted to be hosting Dr. Marilyn Thomas, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, as part of the Department of Epidemiology Seminar series. Marilyn D. Thomas is a social epidemiologist investigating the mechanisms by which structural racism contributes to Black-White inequities in premature aging, chronic disease risk, and mortality. Born and raised in San Francisco’s Bayview/Hunters Point District, she earned her Master’s in Public Health from San Francisco State University and her Doctorate in Epidemiology from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics & Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF, her primary interest is to evaluate policy effects and emphasize methods for causal inference. She is an expert at integrating social theory, measuring racism as a social determinant of health, and estimating the intersections of race, socioeconomic position, and socio-environmental factors using advanced statistical methods and novel study designs. Her research has focused on three domains of Black experiences that uniquely impact Black health: negative racial sentiment or race-based discrimination, policing, and education.