Faculty Guide

Title

Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer

African and Afro-American Studies
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Awards and Honors

David Teaching and Learning Fellowship (2012)

Shiff Fellowship Faculty Mentor (2011)

Visiting Scholar, Womens Center for Health and Human Rights, Suffolk University (2010)

Research Clerkship, Center for Minority Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health (2009)

Senior Fellow, National Center for Health Behavioral Change (2009)

Certificate for Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching, Harvard University (2008)

Isak Kazes Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University (2006)

Courses Taught

EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum
HS	249f	Social Justice, Management, and Policy
HS	515a	Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Health and Human Services Research
HS	527a	Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Public Policy
HS	529a	Inequalities, Social Policy, and Population Groups
HSSP	114b	Racial/Ethnic and Gender Inequalities in Health and Health Care

Scholarship

Gibbs BK, Nsiah-Jefferson L., McHugh M, Triveda A, & Prothrow-Stith D.. "Reducing racial and ethnic health disparities: An outcomes oriented research and policy agenda.." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2006 31. 1 (2012).

Nsiah-Jefferson, Laurie A.. "Pharmacogenomics: Considerations for communities of color." Pharmacogenomics: Social, ethical and clinical dimensions.. Ed. M. Rothstein. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley @ Sons, 2012. 267-290.

Triveda A., Gibbs B, Nsiah-Jefferson L., Ayanian Z, & Prothrow-Stith. ".Creating a state minority health report card.." Health Affairs 24. 2 (2012): 388--96.

Nsiah-Jefferson, Laurie A.. "Nsiah-Jefferson, L. Inequities in Health Care and African-American Women: Intersectional Applications of Research and Policy: In: Black Women’s Health: Challenges and Opportunities. New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc; pp: 1-56.", 2009