
Keisha Bentley-Edwards
@keisha_bentley
Duke Assoc Prof researching & teaching about racism, health, women. Assoc Dir of Research for @DukeSocialEQ; She/Her
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Listen in as Julia Jordan-Zachery, Shamara Wyllie , and Keisha Bentley-Edwards describe navigating COVID, family, work, and activism throughout the pandemic. Listen for more on our website! #blackwomen #blackwomenstories #blackwomentalkcovid #oralhistories #podcast #covid #blackwometalkcovid



Associate Director of Research and Director of our Health Equity Working Group Keisha Bentley-Edwards was spotlighted by the Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development (Society for Research in Child Development) for Black History Month! Read the full Q+A here: srcd.org/news/member-sp…



.Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute named 8 orgs as recipients of its Advancing Health Equity Together Grant program. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, co-director for CTSI’s Center for Equity in Research and a DGHI affiliate, says the orgs chosen hold great promise for promoting health equity. shorturl.at/6EKGs






💡Join us for a new symposium focused on strengthening rural health and including rural communities in research. Featuring experts from Duke University School of Medicine Duke University School of Nursing & Duke Divinity School. 📆 May 8 ⏰ 12:30-2 p.m. 📍 Chesterfield Building 🔗 Register: duke.is/9/6sgy



New research in JASN (ASN Publications) from our health equity team and collaborators, led by Keisha Bentley-Edwards, that underscores the importance of addressing structural racism and its effects in order to reduce kidney health disparities: journals.lww.com/jasn/fulltext/…




Mass media often perpetuate the trope of the “strong Black woman,” someone who perseveres through cycles of hardship and struggle. But new research by Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards is showing that celebrating the resiliency of Black women and girls has a cost. globalhealth.duke.edu/news/problem-b…

🚨 New Book 🚨 Stratification Economics and Disability Justice by Cook Center faculty Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards explores how the work of Black disabled activists can and should inform economic analysis of inequality in the U.S. bit.ly/SEDJ2025


Presenting evidence of disability-based inequality from economics, sociology, and other fields, the authors argue for the inclusion of ableism alongside racism and misogyny in stratification economics' analysis of intergroup disparity. Via Cambridge University Press: bit.ly/SEDJ2025