Sociology | Center on Health, Risk, and Society

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  • What is CHRS



    What Is CHRS?

    A community of scholars pursuing issues
    of health, health-related risks, social
    inequality, and structural interventions

  • AU sociologist Michael Bader

    Sociologist on
    Hoods & Health

    Prof Michael Bader's research stresses
    consequences of spatial inequality.

  • CHRS Director Kim Blankenship


    About the Director

    Kim Blankenship establishes CHRS after
    related work with Duke, Yale,
    and the Gates Foundation

  • AU becomes most recent institutional<br />partner to join DC Developmental<br />Center for AIDS Research.

    AU Partners
    HIV/AIDS Research

    AU becomes most recent institutional
    partner to join DC Developmental
    Center for AIDS Research.

  • Project Parivartan



    CHRS Projects

About the Center on Health, Risk, and Society

The Center on Health, Risk, and Society seeks to build an interdisciplinary community of scholars at American University interested in conducting research on the social dimensions of health and health-related risks, especially on their roots in social inequality, and on structural interventions aimed at addressing them. It will provide a range of resources in support of the development of externally funded research in these areas, both within the United States and globally. More...

Projects

Current projects of the Center on Health, Society, and Risk include:

Bulletins

New CHRS E-Bulletin

CHRS E-Bulletin March 2012

Summer Research With NIDA Application Now Available

The 2012 Summer Research with NIDA program student application brochure is now available at www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/SPOSummer.pdf. 

SHARRPP team at
CIRA AIDS Science Day 2011:
CHRS Director Kim Blankenship, Amy Smoyer, Katina B. Gionteris, Elizabeth Puloka, "HIV Testing and Condom Use Among a Sample of Probationers and Parolees."

CHRS Director Kim Blankenship profiled at American Wonks.