Please join us for our first seminar of the Fall 2025 Public Health Speaker Series! Dr. Xing Gao, PhD, will present on "The Power of Place: Social and Environmental Determinants of Racialized Inequities in Maternal Health."
- Date: Wednesday, October 15
- Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm
- Location: SSB 250
- (Zoom available upon request)
About the Speaker
- Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of California, Merced
Dr. Gao’s research investigates the relationships between power structures, neighborhood health effects, and the well-being of racialized communities. Specifically, her work examines how structural drivers, through past and contemporary place-based policies and programs, distribute material resources and environmental hazards unevenly across neighborhoods. In turn, these unequal conditions shape community well-being over the life-course and across generations. Dr. Gao’s current projects explore how place-based sociopolitical mechanisms, including segregation, gentrification, and disinvestment, interact with exposure to environmental hazards to jointly shape pregnancy, perinatal, and cardiovascular outcomes.
