Spark Talk: “Qualitative approaches to racialized health injustice” by Karen Spencer & Hyeyoung Oh Nelson (November 22nd, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024
10:30AM to 11:30AM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 22/11/2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Description: We have a long history of conceptualizing “race” as a demographic characteristic of individuals. It is much less often that we think of race as a process, or a characteristic of systems and societies—and even less often that we use qualitative methods to explore connections between racialization and health. In this talk, we show how strengths of qualitative methods, focused on complexity, process, contextualization, and meaning-making, are a necessary component of research on racialization if that work is to be successful in understanding and dismantling racialized health injustice.
Bios: Karen Lutfey Spencer is a Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado-Denver. Her research interests include health disparities, medical decision making, and end-of-life healthcare. You can follow her research here on Instagram.
Hyeyoung Oh Nelson is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Public Health in the Health and Behavioral Sciences Department at the University of Colorado-Denver. Her research interests include healthcare professions and organizations, racialized health experiences, and maternal/perinatal health. She is the author of Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finance and Legal Risk.