Amani Nuru-Jeter

Professor, Public Health

The most important thing I bring to my role as a Core Advisor is my passion for mentoring and for cultivating and helping to create an environment where ALL faculty can thrive. I have had good mentoring, bad mentoring, and at times no mentoring; and have both experienced and witnessed the inequities in mentoring among faculty in higher education which fuels my commitment to ensuring that faculty have what they need to develop into their full potential, particularly women, faculty of color, and women faculty of color. I have experience mentoring across the academic pipeline from students, to junior and mid-career faculty both in formal and informal capacities, and am excited to partner with OFEW to help support the mentoring needs of my UCB colleagues.

Dr. Amani Nuru-Jeter is Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, where her research focuses on race and socioeconomic health disparities and the measurement and study of racism as a social determinant of health. Her work seeks to integrate concepts, theories and methods from epidemiology and the social and biomedical sciences to examine racial inequalities in health as they exist across populations, across place, and over the life-course. Her work spans four inter-related areas of inquiry relevant to the study of racial health disparities: 1) the intersection of race, socioeconomic position and gender and its role in understanding patterns of racial health disparities; 2) racial discrimination and the psychobiology of stress, 3) “place”as a determinant of racial health disparities, and 4) the measurement of racism as a social determinant of health.