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by healthequityplus August 8, 2021

Dr. Catherine Cubbin

Catherine Cubbin is a Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor in Community Safety and Associate Dean for Research in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, and a faculty research associate at the Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.

Cubbin received her PhD in Health and Social Policy from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1998. She was trained as a CDC fellow at the National Center for Health Statistics and completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in 2000. Cubbin’s research focuses on using epidemiological methods to better understand socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequalities in health for the purpose of informing policy. Specific areas of her research include using contextual analysis to investigate how neighborhood environments may explain social inequalities in health, and the measurement of socioeconomic status/position in studies of racial/ethnic disparities in health. Using national and statewide representative data sets, she has studied social inequalities in injuries, cardiovascular disease, health behaviors, mortality, and maternal, infant, and adolescent health. She has published widely in public health and medical journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Epidemiology.

From 2001-2006, Cubbin was a Health Disparities Scholar through the National Institutes of Health, and since 1997, she has been a coordinating committee member of the Spirit of 1848, a caucus of the American Public Health Association which focuses in issues related to health and social justice.  
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Dr. Elisa (EJ) Sobo

Dr. EJ Sobo is professor and chair of anthropology at San Diego State University. Recent projects concern the intersection between health and education, vaccination choice, cannabis use for children with intractable epilepsy, and conspiratorial thinking. Sobo is currently part of the CommuniVax coalition, a nationwide participatory action research initiative focused on community-based capacity building for an equitable and effective COVID-19 vaccination rollout. Past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology, and current Section Assembly Convener for the American Anthropological Association, Sobo has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored, co-authored, and co-edited 13 books—including second editions of both Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: A Unified Approach and The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine. Her work has been featured by NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news outlets. Prior to joining SDSU, Sobo taught at the University of Durham in the UK, New Mexico State University, and the University of Arizona. She has worked in clinical trials as well as in hospital settings (i.e., for Children’s Hospital San Diego, and with the Veterans Health Administration). She also had done extensive consulting.

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