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Honoring and congratulating Dr. Sharrelle Barber for her appointment as Director of The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity at Drexel University.
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WHEREAS, Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH is a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Barber is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on the intersection of "place, race, and health" and examines the role of structural racism in shaping racial health inequities among Blacks in the United States and Brazil; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Barber received a Doctor of Science degree in Social Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Master of Public Health from the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Bennett College; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Barber's research and scholarly commentary has been published in leading peer reviewed journals including the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, Lancet Infectious Disease, and Epidemiology; and
WHEREAS, In February 2021, a profile of Dr. Barber's research was featured in the Lancet-one of the leading medical journals in the World; and
WHEREAS, Over the past five years, Dr. Barber has served as Principal Investigator on several externally funded research projects and has secured over $3 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the American Heart Association; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Barber has spoken nationally and internationally about the impact of racism on health inequities; and
WHEREAS, During the COVD-19 pandemic, Dr. Barber served as chair of the Health Justice Advisory Committee for the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival which provided justice-centered public health expertise for the movement as it engaged in collective action and advocacy; and
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