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Dr. Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at The Ohio State University, College of Public Health. She is a Social Epidemiologist whose scholarship focuses on: (1) empirically documenting associations between systems of oppression and adverse birth outcomes (with a focus on preterm birth) among Black/African American women, (2) elucidating the psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms of these associations, and (3) intervening on modifiable intermediate factors. The long-term goal of Dr. Sealy-Jefferson’s work is to inform intervention studies, social activism, and policy change. Dr. Sealy-Jefferson earned her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, and both her MPH in Public Health Practice, and B.S. in Clinical Laboratory Science from Wayne State University.