Office Location: 213 Sanford Building
Office Phone: (919) 613-7338
Duke Box: 90245
Email Address: sjames@duke.edu
Note: On leave, fall 2012
Areas of Expertise
Education:
PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 1973
A.B., Talladega College, Talladega, AL, 1964
Research Categories: Social Determinants of US Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Status and Health Care; Poverty and Global Health Disparities
Current projects: Life course Socioeconomic Position and the Health of African Americans: The Pitt County Study (PI), Reducing diabetes-related health disparities in African Americans (PI), The Southern Center on Environmentally-Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes (Co-Director), The Health Legacy of Desegregation on Black/White Health Disparities in the South (PI)
Research Description: Research: Social determinants of U.S.racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities; community-based and public policy interventions to reduce health disparities
Office Hours:
10am-12noon, Mondays
Representative Publications (More Publications)
Bio/Profile
Sherman A. James is the Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. He is also holds professorships at Duke in Sociology, Community and Family Medicine, and African and African American Studies. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, he taught in the epidemiology departments at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1973-89) and at the University of Michigan (1989-03). At Michigan, he was the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health, the Founding Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health (CRECH), Chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, and a Senior Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research.
James' research focuses on the social determinants of racial and ethnic health inequalities and community-based and public policy interventions designed to minimize, and ultimately eliminate, these inequalities.
James was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000. In 2001, he received the Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the Epidemiology section of the American Public Health Association for career excellence in the teaching of epidemiology. He is a fellow of the American Epidemiological Society, the American College of Epidemiology, the American Heart Association, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. In 2007-08, he served as president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER). In 2008, he was awarded a Health Policy Investigator Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
A social epidemiologist, James received his PhD (Psychology) from Washington University in St. Louis (1973). In 2008, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Washington University.
