Neighborhood Risk and Resilience for Immigrant Groups: The Role of Ethnic Enclaves

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Brittany Morey, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior at University of California, Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, will present "Neighborhood Risk and Resilience for Immigrant Groups: The Role of Ethnic Enclaves."

She received her MPH and PhD in Community Health Sciences from UCLA. Dr. Morey’s research focuses on how structural racism shapes racial and ethnic health inequities. Dr. Morey is a co-investigator on grants funded by the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the National Cancer Institute. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles on topics related to addressing health inequities.

Her talk will discuss how research often examines how living in ethnic enclaves can contribute to health for communities of color, especially those with large proportions of immigrants, such as Asian American and Latine populations. However, the findings in this literature have been largely mixed, and some of the assumptions behind why and how ethnic enclaves impact health inequities have been underexplored. In this talk, Dr. Morey will share her research on how ethnic enclaves can influence health, particularly for Asian American and Latine populations via social and economic processes. She will describe a newly developed measure of sociocultural institutions that can be used to tease apart mechanisms linking ethnic enclaves and health. This research ultimately aims to promote health equity in the places where ethnic communities live, work, worship, and recreate.

Contact Information

Jaelyn Chinchilla
jnc323@drexel.edu