Afro-Latine Health.
Latin America and by extension Latino/a/x/e (Latine) health has flattened the idea racialization — the construction of “race” — and racism across these populations. At the crux of this line of research is centering the experiences of Afro-descendents in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Latines in public health research and policy.
To do this work, we must shift our research away the systematic exclusion of the existence of Afro-descendents in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rather, the work I do combines historical and sociological research to a public health lens to do better job in measuring the constructs of the racialization of Afro-Latines and how the experiences of living as a Black person in the Americas produces different interpersonal to structural exposures that then lead to differential health outcomes.
Our team is currently recruiting Afro-Latine adults for our Afro-Latine Racialization and Cardiovascular Health (ARCH) Study! This study is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (1K01HL161031-01).
To learn more about the ARCH study, see our project website: http://tarheel.live/arch