Friday, February 18, 2022
3:30 – 5:00 PM
via Zoom
(register here)
Beverly Xaviera Watkins, MA, PhD
Social epidemiologist and community-engaged research practitioner
Beverly Xaviera Watkins, MA, PhD, is a social epidemiologist and community-engaged research practitioner with a 26-year track record in community-based programs and projects. For over two decades, she has worked to reduce health disparities and level the playing field between the academy and community, both in academia, leading large scale community-engagement efforts at Columbia, Cornell and NYU, and at the grassroots community level, partnering with local direct social service delivery groups and non-profits that work within diverse racial and ethnic health disparity communities (African- Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans) throughout New York City: in Brooklyn (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, FUREE and Public Housing Civic Association, PHC), in the South Bronx (Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, YMPJ), and the Lower East Side (Good Old Lower East Side, GOLES), and in Chinatown (Chinese Progressive Association, CPA. In Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Watkins employs qualitative and quantitative methods to develop evidence-based approaches and integrate community-engagement into the practice of biomedical and behavioral social science and public health research.
This event is brought to you by the UCI Black Thriving Initiative Cluster Hire in Environmental Health Disparities and the Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research (CEHDR).