Graduate School Expert: Kristin Z. Black

Black is committed to utilizing community-based participatory research, mixed methods and racial equity approaches to understand and address inequities in reproductive health and chronic disease outcomes. Her research merges three key components. First, Black explores the connections between reproductive health, maternal health and chronic diseases, and whether these outcomes differ by race/ethnicity or other social identities. Second, she focuses on understanding what individual- and systems-level factors may hinder or facilitate birthing people’s journey through maternal health care services. Third, she is committed to transforming research into action by engaging community stakeholders in implementing and sustaining interventions that tackle health inequities and structural racism.