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Mr. Baxter’s doctoral work focuses on aspects of men’s health within and outside the contexts of health care settings. He is currently working on projects related to health care access, residential segregation, and stress responses concerning young adults.
MORE ABOUT SAMUEL
Samuel Baxter is an emerging scholar advocate who is passionate about improving the lived experiences of boys and men across their life trajectories. He is a fourth-year doctoral student studying Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC. His dissertation explores racial differences in the relationship between residential segregation and heart health among young men. Samuel earned his BS in Sociology with a minor in Pan-African Studies from Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, and his MPH from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to coming to UNC, he worked as a graduate assistant on prison health and reentry support programs at Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved, a division of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute. He is interested in understanding how racial disparities in health emerge among young men and leveraging this knowledge to create intervention strategies and policy-relevant solutions to create a Culture of Health that improves the health trajectories of African-American men.
DISSERTATION GRANT AWARDEE — MAY 2019
Examining Racial Differences in Cardiovascular Health among Young Men: The Role of Residential Segregation
Cardiovascular health may be an upstream solution to cardiovascular disease in the United States. I proposed a dissertation study to examine the extent that residential segregation impacts race differences in cardiovascular health among young men in the U.S. I conducted two quantitative studies using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and a participatory research study with community-dwelling young Black men.
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