Sherman A James
- Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies
- Sociology
- 213 Sanford Institute Building
- Campus Box 90245
- Phone: (919) 613-7338
- Fax: (919) 681-8288
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Sherman A. James is the Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies in the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke University. Prior to joining Duke University, he taught in the epidemiology departments at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1973-89) and at the University of Michigan (1989-03). At Michigan, he was the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health, the Founding Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health (CRECH), and a Senior Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research.
James' research focuses on the social determinants of racial and ethnic health inequalities and community-based and public policy interventions designed to minimize, and ultimately eliminate, these inequalities.
James was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000. In 2001, he received the Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the Epidemiology section of the American Public Health Association for career excellence in the teaching of epidemiology. He is a fellow of the American Epidemiological Society, the American College of Epidemiology, the American Heart Association, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He is president-elect (2006-07) of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Public Health.
A social epidemiologist, James received his PhD (Social Psychology) from Washington University, in St. Louis (1973.) -
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Research Summary
US Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status and Health Care; Poverty and Health -
Research Description
Research: Social determinants of U.S. racial and ethnic health disparities; community-based and public policy interventions to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities
