The Yale Sociology Workshop in Urban Ethnography presents Sanyu A. Mojola, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, the Maurice P During Professor of Demographic Studies and the Director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University:
“Living through the Drugs-HIV-Homicide Syndemic in Washington D.C.”
Professor Mojola is also an Honorary Professor at the Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, and was previously on the faculty at the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado Boulder. Her award-wining mixed methods research examines how societies produce health and illness, with a particular focus on the HIV/AIDS pandemic as it unfolds in various settings such as Kenya (see her book Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS) and South Africa (see more about her NIH funded project “HIV after 40 in Rural South Africa: Aging in the Context of an HIV Epidemic”). Her current book in progress examines racial health inequality in the United States. She has investigated how social processes and mechanisms within schools, communities, labor markets, cities and eco-systems can lead to health inequality. She is especially interested in how gender, race/ethnicity, aging and the life course and socio-economic status shape health outcomes. She has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Studies in Family Planning, and is currently serving on the editorial committee of Population and Development Review. Her website is: https://scholar.princeton.edu/smojola
In her talk, entitled “Living through the Drugs-HIV-Homicide Syndemic in Washington D.C.”, Professor Mojola will be presenting a chapter from her book in progress, which examines the production of racial health inequality in Washington D.C .drawing on mixed methods research, including archival material, survey data, and life history interviews.