UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Early career faculty from the Social Disparities cluster (co-funded by the Social Science Research Institute) at Penn State, Maithreyi Gopalan and Alexis Santos will provide an overview of their research on examining and mitigating social disparities in education and population health.

Gopalan engages in policy-relevant, research exploring the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in educational outcomes and will discuss findings from her emerging lines of research at the intersection of social psychology, education and health policy. Santos’s primary research interest lies in the study of social disparities in stress, health and mortality. As a population health scientist, he works with health disparities and the implications measurement issues to population health scholarship.

They will provide an overview of their research agendas and future directions. If time permits, they will also discuss preliminary findings emerging from a joint research project that has been invited for presentation at the U.S. Census 2020: Continuity and Change Conference, sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation, to be held this summer.

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