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Biography

Rahwa Haile is a tenured Associate Professor at Lehman College. Her scholarly work is situated in the field of critical social epidemiology, and centers around the ways in which structural inequities produce population health inequities. Her most recent projects focus on how state violence (police violence and surveillance in particular) shapes racial inequities in health in the United States. Ultimately, her professional calling is to promote health and social equity through community-driven action research, and through working with community stakeholders in their efforts to build the community power necessary to acquire life-affirming social conditions for Black, Brown, and working-class NYC communities. She holds a PhD in public health and an MA in ethnic studies from the University of Michigan, and a BA in history from Columbia.