Senior Research Fellow
MAUREEN BENJAMINS
Professional Summary
| Maureen Benjamins joined SUHI in 2005 and now serves as the Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Benjamins is a social epidemiologist whose work focuses on structural racism and the resulting health inequities. She has led several initiatives to study inequities nationally and in Chicago, including the Sinai Community Health Survey 2.0 and Unequal Cities, a study of the racial gaps in mortality across the biggest cities in the U.S. She has co-edited two books – Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America’s Largest Cities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021) and Urban Health: Combating Disparities with Local Data (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Dr. Benjamins developed and directs a research internship program for medical students, along with the Sinai Population Health Institute, which provides an immersion into health equity issues for individuals working or training in health-related fields. She also directs the SUHI Equity Research Fellowship program to facilitate collaborative research on health equity issues between SUHI and interested faculty from around the country. Dr. Benjamins is an adjunct faculty member at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. |
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Gerontological Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005
- PhD, Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004
- MA, Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
- BA, Sociology, Duke University, 1998
