Chandra Ford

Acting Professor

Professor

Faculty, Behavioral/Social/Health Educ

Outstanding Academic Title for 2020, Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional (APHA Press, 2019) American Library Association Choice magazine, 2020
Wade Hampton Frost Award, Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association, 2020
TrueHero Award, TruEvolution, 2020
Paul Cornely Award from the Health Activist Dinner group, 2019
Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of Black Women Physicians, 2019

Contact Information

1518 CLIFTON RD

ATLANTA , GA

1518002

Phone: (404) 727-2038

Email: Chandra.L.Ford@emory.edu

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Education

PhD 2005, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health
MLIS 1998, University of Pittsburgh
MPH 1997, University of Pittsburgh

Affiliations & Activities

African American Studies, Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Publications

Chandanabhumma PP, Fàbregues S, Oetzel J, Duran B, Ford CL, 2023, Examining the influence of group diversity on the functioning of community-based participatory research partnerships: A mixed methods study, American Journal of Community Psychology, 71, 242-254
Bradford NJ, Amani B, Walker VP, Sharif MZ, Ford CL, 2022, Barely Tweeting and Rarely About Racism: Assessing US State Health Department Twitter Use During the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout, Ethnicity & Disease, 32, 257-264
Harawa NT, Amani B, Abotsi-Kowu C, Nwankwo E, and Ford CL, 2022, Using COVID-19 Surveillance Systems to Identify and Monitor Disparities: Best Practices and Recommendations, Ethnicity & Disease, 32, 151-164
Yam EA, Silva M, Ranganathan M, White J, Hope TM, and Ford CL, 2021, Time to take Critical Race Theory seriously: Moving beyond a colorblind gender lens in global health, Lancet Global Health, 9, e389-e390
Ledesma, Elida and Ford CL, 2020, Exploring the Health Implications of Housing Assignments on Incarcerated Transgender Women, American Journal of Public Health, 110, 650-654
Ford CL, Griffith DM, Bruce M, and Gilbert K [Eds.], 2019, Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional, Washington DC: American Public Health Association (APHA) Press, , 583
Ford CL, Takahashi LM, Chandanabhumma PP, Ruiz ME and Cunningham WE, 2018, Anti-racism Methods for Big Data Research: Lessons Learned from the HIV Testing, Linkage, & Retention in Care (HIV TLR) Study, Ethnicity & Disease, 28, 261-266
Ford CL and Airhihenbuwa CO, 2018, Just What is Critical Race Theory and What's it Doing in a Progressive Field like Public Health?, Ethnicity & Disease, 28, 223-230.
Cunningham WE, Ford CL, Kinsler JJ, Seiden D, Andrews L, Nakazono T and Bell, DS, 2017, Effects of a Laboratory Health Information Exchange Intervention on Antiretroviral Therapy Use, Viral Suppression, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), 75, 290-298
Doll KM, Snyder CR and Ford CL, 2017, Endometrial Cancer Disparities: A Race Conscious Critique of the Literature, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 218, 474-482
Caldwell JT, Ford CL, Wallace ST, Wang MC, Takahashi LM, 2017, Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation and Access to Healthcare in Rural Areas, Health & Place, Jan, 104-112
Gee GC and Ford CL, 2011, Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Old Issues, New Directions, DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 8, 115-132
Ford CL and Harawa NT, 2010, A new conceptualization of ethnicity for social epidemiologic and health equity research, Social Science & Medicine, 71, 251-258
Ford CL and Airhihenbuwa CO, 2010, The Public Health Critical Race Methodology: Praxis for Antiracism Research, Social Science & Medicine, 71, 1390-1398