Dean Robinson examines the effects of political and public policy trends on racial health disparities in the United States. His work is part of an emerging area of research on the “political epidemiology” of health disadvantage. He is currently working on a book length project on political inequality and black health in the United States. He is also exploring the question of political inequality and health through a comparative analysis of indigenous and minority health policy in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. An earlier project focused on economic inequality and white and black male mortality in the United States.
The lecture combines his recent work on the political determinants of health inequality to his earlier research and book on black nationalism in the United States.