Sociology | Center on Health, Risk, and Society

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  • CHRS Director Kim Blankenship

    Community Disruption
    & HIV in DC

    Center on Health, Risk, and Society conference
    examines impact of community disruption on HIV risk.

  • AU sociologist Michael Bader

    Sociologist on
    Hoods & Health

    Prof Michael Bader's research stresses
    consequences of spatial inequality.

  • What is CHRS


    What Is CHRS?

    A community of scholars pursuing issues
    of health, health-related risks, social
    inequality, and structural interventions

  • AU becomes most recent institutional<br />partner to join DC Developmental<br />Center for AIDS Research.

    AU Partners
    HIV/AIDS Research

    AU becomes most recent institutional
    partner to join DC Developmental
    Center for AIDS Research.

  • Project Parivartan



    CHRS Projects

About the Center on Health, Risk, and Society

The Center on Health, Risk, and Society seeks to build an interdisciplinary community of scholars at American University interested in conducting research on the social dimensions of health and health-related risks, especially on their roots in social inequality, and on structural interventions aimed at addressing them. It will provide a range of resources in support of the development of externally funded research in these areas, both within the United States and globally. More...

Projects

Current projects of the Center on Health, Society, and Risk include:


Bulletins

Featured in Upcoming CHRS Seminars: Allison Goldberg (Columbia University), Jeff Kaplan (AU), Cecilia Van Hollen (Syracuse University), Sarah Irvine Belson and Anastasia Snelling (AU), Jennifer S. Hirsch (Columbia University), Lisa Bowleg (Columbia University), Jeremy Shiffman and Rachel Robinson (AU).