Social and Health Inequalities

Scholarship in Human Development and Social Policy recognizes that resources and opportunities essential to human thriving are unequally distributed across social groups as are risk factors that undermine successful development and well-being. Social and health inequalities comprise a core component of the research programs of nearly all faculty our HDSP program. Faculty and graduate students take an interdisciplinary approach, using perspectives from multiple academic areas, to conduct research that:

• Documents inequalities across multiple, intersecting dimensions
• Assesses the causes of inequalities
• Examines the outcomes of inequalities, with a particular focus on health disparities
• Evaluates policy interventions that reduce inequalities

FCS faculty are engaged in a wide range of research activities in the area of social and health inequalities.

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