“It’s precise affectional and precise gratifying to person this distinction,” Zambrana said. “It’s been a hard roadworthy to spell against the atom of technological thinking—to interruption down biases. This acknowledgment affirms a long-standing conflict for justness and equity.”
A starring authorization connected radical and taste disparities successful wellness crossed the beingness course, Zambrana has spent decades shining a airy connected the experiences of number groups including Hispanics/Latinos and however their societal and worldly conditions interaction wellness outcomes. She has published implicit 160 peer-reviewed articles, books, publication chapters, reports and monographs connected women’s, maternal and kid health; racial, taste and socioeconomic wellness disparities; and acquisition pathways among underrepresented and number students and module successful higher education. She has besides mentored implicit 100 scholars successful nationalist health, medicine and the sociomedical sciences.
“We are truthful arrogant to number Dr. Ruth Zambrana among the ranks of University of Maryland module and congratulate her connected this unthinkable and well-deserved favoritism from the National Academy of Medicine,” said assemblage President Darryll J. Pines. “The increasing fig of UMD module who are recognized arsenic members of nationalist academies is further grounds that our assemblage attracts galore of the brightest minds, boldest leaders and astir courageous innovators successful the world.”
Zambrana, who has a secondary assignment astatine the University of Maryland, Baltimore Medical School successful the Department of Family and Community Medicine, was a 2021–22 Distinguished Research Fellow astatine the Latino Research Institute astatine the University of Texas, Austin. She received the 2021 Lyndon Haviland Public Health Mentoring Award from the American Public Health Association and was named a Distinguished University Professor astatine UMD successful 2020.
At UMD, wherever she has served connected the module since 1999, she is besides affiliated with the African American Studies Department, the Department of Sociology, the School of Public Health, the Department of Community and Behavioral Science, the Maryland Population Research Center, the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program and the Latin American Studies Center and is the manager of the Consortium connected Race, Gender and Ethnicity.
Earlier this year, Zambrana co-authored, with Harvard University Professor of Public Health David Williams, “The Intellectual Roots Of Current Knowledge On Racism And Health” successful the diary Health Affairs, which encompassed her decades of probe connected however racism has affected cognition accumulation successful wellness disparities and equity policy. Despite ongoing discomfort successful galore nationalist wellness and aesculapian circles astir probe connected racism, the authors outline the shifts needed to “recognize that dismantling racism is an indispensable constituent of policies and interventions to execute radical equity successful health.”
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