The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein provided comments on recent use of Medicaid to expand health services provided to incarcerated individuals before their release in NC Health News article. Dr. Brinkley-Rubinstein, a professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine explains that this new use provides vital care as…
Cook Center Core Faculty Keisha Bentley-Edwards was interviewed for an article in The Charlotte Post on the bias that remains in medicine and higher Black mortality rates. Dr. Bentley-Edwards, the Associate Director of Research and Director of the Health Equity Working Group for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and an Associate Professor…
Duke Today has spotlighted the Hank & Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars program, recognizing it as “one of the few opportunities in the state for young people to get experience in conducting interdisciplinary social sciences research.” “This program underscores the importance of conducting credible research and examines how research can shape different aspects of society….
Since beginning in the mid-2010s, the Cook Center has steadily and robustly developed its research, programming, multimedia, and educational activities. In just its first decade of operations, the Center already has created a host of different working groups that have written and disseminated innumerable reports and academic papers, developed a minor in inequality studies in conjunction with the Duke History department, published multiple books, launched a podcast, and created and sustained programs to support young scholars and tenure-track researchers.
Q+A: Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards Dr. Adam Hollowell serves as Senior Research Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Director of the Inequality Studies Minor at Duke University. He is also the Faculty Director of the Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Scholarship Program and Director of the Global Inequality Research Initiative. An…
Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen gave comments in conversation on the Marketplace Morning Report with host David Brancaccio and Marketplace’s Mitchell Hartman on the state of reparations after Tulsa’s mayor recently announced a $105 million reparations plan. Hartman has been reporting on the racial wealth gap through the lens of Tulsa,…
Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut, published a pilot study in Eating Behaviors evaluating a 12-week online intervention called SATISFY, designed to prevent weight gain by addressing emotional eating. In collaboration with Dr. Rachel Goode (UNC-Chapel Hill), the program combined appetite awareness training with lifestyle strategies…
