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Dr. Tené Lewis, professor of epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, is giving a talk entitled "Discrimination and Racial Trauma: Beyond the Mind to the Body."  Dr. Lewis studies the relationship between discrimination and various health outcomes.

Over the past two decades, research examining the impact of self-reported experiences of discrimination and racial trauma on mental and physical health has increased dramatically. Early research focused primarily on mental health and self-reported physical health outcomes, but more recent studies have documented consistent, robust associations between discrimination and other forms of racial trauma and the body. Using examples from several different cohorts of women, Dr. Lewis will highlight a program of research documenting linkages between discrimination, racial trauma, and the body, with an emphasis on risk factors for cardiovascular disease in African-American women. Implications for cardiovascular disease prevention and intervention will also be discussed.