Event Description
Please join us for this Migration, Ethnicity, Racism, and Health Group
(MERHG) Seminar!
Dr. Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at
Utah State University. Dr. Marquez-Velarde’s main research interests are
intersectionality and population health, or how the lived experience of
belonging to more than one socially disadvantaged or marginalized population is
associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes. Using a critical
perspective, her research stems from the notion that interlocking systems of
inequality work in tandem to produce negative health outcomes through multiple
biopsychosocial mechanisms. Her expertise includes Immigrant, Latinx, and
LGBTQ+ health, as well as demography.
The chronic exposure to social disadvantage-related stressors becomes
biologically embedded over time. Discrimination is a chronic stressor
associated with adverse health outcomes among both racial & ethnic and
sexual & gender minoritized individuals. Extant research predominantly
examines the health effects of discrimination attributed to a single
minoritized status.
Dr. Marquez Velarde will present her work on the association between
racial/ethnic and sexual/gender-based discrimination and cardiovascular and
sleep health outcomes in a sample of self-identified LGBTQ+ individuals.
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