Thomas A. LaVeist

Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D. is the William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy and Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. LaVeist focuses mainly on the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in health-related outcomes.

Thomas A. LaVeist obtained his B.A. from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 1984, his Ph.D. in medical sociology from the University of Michigan in 1988, and postdoctoral fellowship in public health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 1990. During his time at the University of Michigan, he helped found the National Black Graduate Student Association. He often presents lectures on minority health issues to various universities, conferences, and workshops. LaVeist joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1990 and has been serving in various roles including professor of health policy and management (since 2004), professor of sociology (since 2004), holder of a joint appointment in the School of Medicine Oncology Department (since 2005), and a faculty associate in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (since 2005) and in the Hopkins Population Center (since 1993).

LaVeist has written more than 100 articles in leading scientific journals and authored or edited 5 books on minority health issues and cultural competency in healthcare. His work has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, the Commonwealth Fund, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He has also earned awards such as the Knowledge Award from the US Department of Health and Human Services and the American Sociology Association's Roberta G. Simmons best Dissertation Award. In 2013, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine

Books

• 2000, The DayStar Guide to Colleges for African American Students. Simon & Schuster/Stanly Kaplan Publishing.
• 2005, Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States. Jossey-Bass.
• 2012, Race, Ethnicity and Health: A Public Health Reader. Jossey-Bass

Highly Cited Articles

• 1994, Beyond dummy variables and sample selection: What health services researchers ought to know about race as a variable, in: Health Services Research. Vol. 29, nº 1, 1-16.
• 1996, with Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Race/ethnicity, the social environment, and health, in: Social Science and Medicine. Vol. 43, nº 1, 83-91.
• 2000, with Kim J. Nickerson and Janice V. Bowie, Attitudes about racism, medical mistrust, and satisfaction with care amond African American and white cardiac patients, in: Medical Care Research and Review. Vol. 57, nº 1, 146-161.
• 2002, with Amani M. Nuru-Jeter, Is doctor-patient race concordance associated with greater satsifaction with care?, in: Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Vol. 43, nº 3, 296-206.
• 2003, with Ebony Ebony Boulware, Lisa Angeline Cooper, Lloyd E. Ratner, and Neil R. Powe, Race and trust in the health care system, in: Public Health Reports. Vol. 118, nº 4, 358-365.
• 2005, Disentangling race and socioeconomic status: A key to understanding health inequalities, in: Journal of Urban Health. Vol. 82, nº 4, ii26-ii34.

• Tim Parsons (7 January 2013). "LaVeist Named Inaugural William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 
• http://www.asanet.org/sections/medical_past_recipients.cfm
• Tim Parsons (24 June 2015). "Thomas LaVeist Elected to the Institute of Medicine". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 
• "Scopus: LaVeist, Thomas A.".