Emerging Scholars Exchange Program: Michelle Nakphong, PhD
The Legacies of Structural Racism and its Impacts on Mental Health Among Low-Income Black Young Adults: Findings From the Black Economic Equity Movement (BEEM)
Open to Penn affiliates
Speaker
Michelle Nakphong, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Michelle Nakphong, PhD (she/her) is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on how social exclusion and inclusive policies impact the health of marginalized populations. Building on over 2 decades of community-based policy advocacy work, she strives to amplify voices from low-income and minoritized communities and illuminate structural drivers of health. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Division of Prevention Science and is focusing on the health impacts of guaranteed income—an inclusive policy—in the Black Economic Equity Movement (BEEM) Guaranteed Income trial. She received her BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2003 and her PhD from UCLA in Community Health Sciences in 2022.
The Emerging Scholars Exchange Program is a collaborative program with peer universities developed to provide professional development opportunities for early career faculty. Conceived by the Faculty Development Committee at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI), the Exchange Program is a collaboration between IHPI, Penn LDI, and UCSF’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.