CHAS Original Interviews

CHAS Original Interview with Dr. Tina Sacks

by Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) | CHAS Original Interviews

The Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) is pleased to offer CHAS Original Interviews, podcasts which highlight multidisciplinary innovations in health policy, health and social service integration, health access, cost and quality, behavioral health, global health, and preventive intervention.

In this first episode, CHAS Co-Director, Colleen Grogan, PhD interviews Tina Sacks, AM, PhD is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial inequities in health, social determinants of health, and poverty and inequality. Professor Sacks focuses on the how macro-structural forces, including structural discrimination and immigration, affect women’s health. Her current work investigates the persistence of racial and gender discrimination in health care settings among racial/ethnic minorities who are not poor. She published a book on this subject entitled Invisible Visits: Black Middle Class Women in the American Healthcare System (Oxford, 2019)