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Spotlight on Jay Kaufman, PhD

Understanding Race in Health

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In recent history, doctors and researchers have made numerous assertions concerning the use of race or ethnicity as a factor that can influence susceptibility to disease, prognosis, or response to therapy. However, a careful analysis of many of these claims has not yet been made. Jay Kaufman, PhD is studying what circumstances would call for race to be used as an informative variable. In other projects, Dr. Kaufman is studying the roles of ethnicity and socioeconomic conditions on pregnancy outcomes in the United States and in Chile.

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With the analysis of census data and birth records, Dr. Kaufman is conducting multi-level statistical analyses that take into account the influence of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nativity, and concentration of ethnicity within Census Tracts. By clarifying the relationship between ethnicity and pregnancy outcome more fully, considering a broader range of ethnicities defined in greater detail, and integrating individual and community level socioeconomic influences, Dr. Kaufman's team will be better able to target groups in need of intervention, as well as identify clues to the causes of such outcomes.

Learn more about Dr. Kaufman's research

Jay Kaufman, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology. His research focuses on health disparities.

Last updated June 12, 2008

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