This talk will cover the state of practice for communicating race and ethnicity in multiple health disciplines, how current communication practice threatens both scientific rigor and equity, and the possible actions at the individual and structural level we can take to address these issues.

This talk argues that social science research has three families of strategy for making sense of the size of mortality disparities and provides new empirical results in each vein that collectively aim to put demographic measurement onto a more human footing.

Dr. Rebecca Cunningham is one of the nation’s leading experts on issues related to firearm injury prevention.