Updates & Stories

For many Black Americans, faith is central to how we cope, connect, and endure. Four studies my colleagues and I published this past year show that faith can protect our health. They also show that its benefits do not reach everyone equally. Faith is not the problem. These findings raise a harder question: when Black women bring their stress to the church, what are they carrying back out? Their burden may include serving, organizing, and caring for everyone else.

Recap on Rethinking Resilience for Black women and girls

New Publication Alert! Epigenetics, Structural Determinants, and Race: An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Embodied Stress, Resilience, & Black Women’s Cardiometabolic Health

I am not your Superwoman! Society can no longer demand resilience from Black women and girls without making systemic change.

From our paper in the BMJ, systemic racism, economic inequality, & racial capitalism all contribute to health conditions linked to COVID-19

For Duke University School of Medicine's Dean's Distinguished Research Series Lecture, I decided to give an arch of my research on racism...

Black parents and babies deserve better than the care they have been given. I was a featured expert to give context to the short but...

New Publication: We look at the shared pre-cursors to COVID-19 and behavioral weight-loss intervention (BWI) disparities. Spoiler Alert:...

The TEDx folks just uploaded my Talk, and I couldn't be more excited. I cover a lot of ground here, but the underlying theme is that...

In February, I joined an awesome line up of speakers for the 2021 TEDxDuke. This year's theme was "A Matter of Time." The audience was...