Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago
About
Aresha Martinez-Cardoso is Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow and instructor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Chicago. Trained as an interdisciplinary public health researcher, Aresha draws on scholarship from the social sciences and health sciences to explore the biosocial mechanisms by which racial inequities shape population health and health disparities. Her work has largely focused on the health of Latino immigrants and their US-born coethnics. Aresha received her doctoral degree from the University of Michigan Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and a master of science in community health sciences from UCLA.
Current Work:
Aresha's research broadly examines how social inequality and the experience of race, ethnicity, and im/migration shape health across the lifecourse, with a particular focus on the health of Latina/os. Drawing from her training in public health and social demography, she uses innovative methods to illustrate how race and social inequities have been deeply embedded into our nation’s institutions and ideologies,and trace the biosocial mechanisms by which these inequities trickle down to affect the health of racial minorities.
Aresha's work has been funded by training fellowships from the National Institute of Aging and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and grants from the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, Population Studies Research Center, and National Center for Institutional Diversity.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Health inequities, social policy, im/migration, race/ethnicity
