CONTRIBUTOR:

Sarah Gehlert

AFFILIATION:

E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis

TITLE:

E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity

DEPARTMENT:

George Warren Brown School of Social Work

INSTITUTION:

Washington University in St. Louis

BIOGRAPHY:

Sarah Gehlert is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Rcail and Ethnic Diversity at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to that, she was the Helen Ross Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, the Institute of Mind and Biology, and the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She is a scholar at Washington University's Institute for Public Health and a research member of the Alvin J. Siteman Comprehensive Cancer Center, and remains the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research at the University of Chicago. Her publications focus on social influences on health, especially the health of vulnerable populations. She edited the Handbook of Health Social Work with Teri Browne in 2006.