Brigette Davis

Brigette is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on the impact of structural racism on health across the life course, with a particular interest in how structural racism is conceptualized and measured in epidemiologic research. She is also interested in studying racism as a type of trauma, social justice and community-level resilience, police violence, and physiologic responses to stress. She was part of the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University's first doctoral cohort and is an alumna of the RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars program. She earned a PhD from Harvard University in Population Health Sciences. She holds an MPH from Yale School of Public Health, and a BA from Swarthmore College.