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Naa Oyo A. KWATE 55 Dudley Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901 September 2017 848.932.9233 [email protected] http://www.rna-lab.com CURRENT APPOINTMENTS 7/2014 – Associate Director, The Center for Race and Ethnicity Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 9/2010 - Associate Professor of Human Ecology Associate Professor of Africana Studies Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ PRIOR APPOINTMENTS 7/2006 – 8/2010 Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University, New York, NY 9/2004 – 7/2006 Associate Research Scientist in Sociomedical Sciences Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University, New York, NY 9/2001-8/2004 Postdoctoral Fellow Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY EDUCATION 2002 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology Advisor: Beverly Greene St. John’s University, Queens, NY 1994 B.A., Psychology, cum laude Carleton College, Northfield, MN AWARDS & HONORS 2012 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leaders Award One of 10 awardees nationwide from an inaugural program recognizing leaders aged 40 or under for their exceptional contributions to improving the health of the nation and strong potential for future leadership. Kwate 2 2012 Invited Participant, National Institutes of Health Common Fund “Focus Forward” Workshop One of approximately 26 scientists nominated by NIH Institute and Center Directors to address “the biggest questions and challenges facing biomedical research today.” 2009 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Research grant to support exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact. 2008 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research funding to support creative and crosses disciplinary research in search of knowledge and innovative solutions to the most challenging health, health care and health policy issues facing America. 2002 NIH – National Center on Minority Health & Health Disparities Scholar (LRP) Awarded to researchers focusing on minority health or other health disparity issues. FELLOWSHIPS Year Awarded 2017 George E. Burch Fellowship in Theoretic Medicine, Smithsonian Institution (declined) 2017 EURIAS (European Institutes for Advanced Study): Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France 2016 Short-term Research Fellow, Black Metropolis Research Consortium, University of Chicago 2016 Senior Research Fellow, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution GRANT FUNDING Current, External 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2020 1G13LM012463-01 Principal Investigator: “Race and the transformation of the food environment: Fast food, African Americans, and the color line, 1955-1995” National Institutes of Health Direct costs: $150,000 Completed, External 9/2015 – 5/2017 Principal Investigator: “The City as Health Policy” Research Conference Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Direct costs: $126,939 9/2009 – 8/2013 Principal Investigator: “Immunologic Effects and a Structural "Countermarketing" Intervention: Racism, the HPA axis, and African American health” National Institutes of Health - The NIH Director's New Innovator Award Direct costs = $1,500,000 Kwate 3 7/2009 – 12/2012 Principal Investigator: “On the content of our character: The myth of meritocracy and African American health” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Investigator Award in Health Policy Direct costs = $334,975 9/2007 – 8/2009 Principal Investigator: “Studying spatial associations between the density of schools and the density of fast food outlets” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Healthy Eating Research & New Connections Direct costs = $99,963 9/2004 – 8/2007 Principal Investigator: “Cultural and Contextual Determinants of Alcohol Use Among African American Women: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Breast Cancer Risk” Department of Defense; Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Direct costs = $375,000 Completed, Internal 11/2015 – 11/2016 Co-Investigator: “The Black body in White space: Does racialized fear inhibit health-promoting use of public space?” (M. Goodman, PI) Ferguson Academic Fund, Washington University in St. Louis Direct costs= $15,500 7/2015 – 5/2016 Principal Investigator: “Race and the American hamburger” Research Council, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Direct costs = $1,350 8/2011 – 8/2013 Principal Investigator: “An fMRI study of racism” Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Direct costs = $0 (in-kind support towards MRI usage) 2008 – 2010 Principal Investigator: “Towards a GIS model of institutional racism” Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program (seed grant), Columbia University Direct costs = $15,000 2008 - 2010 Principal Investigator: “Assessing reliability of participant self-report for access to neighborhood facilities” Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program (microgrant), Columbia University Direct costs = $3,500 2007 – 2009 Principal Investigator: “When does place matter? Racial segregation, neighborhood perceptions, and health status among African Americans” Diversity Research Fellowship, Columbia University Direct costs = $20,000 Kwate 4 2006 – 2008 Principal Investigator: “Exploring the Experience of Internalized Racism among African Americans” Calderone Prize for Junior Faculty, Columbia University Direct costs = $8,150 PUBLICATIONS * denotes student author Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts Kwate, N.O.A., & Threadcraft. S. (accepted). Dying fast and dying slow in Black space: Stop and Frisk's public health threat and a comprehensive necropolitics. Du Bois Review. Kwate, N.O.A. (in press). The Race Against Time: Lived time, time loss, and Black health opportunity. Du Bois Review. Thompson, A.B., Goodman, M.S., & Kwate, N.O.A. (2016). Does learning about race prevent substance abuse? Racial discrimination, racial socialization and substance use among African Americans. Addictive Behaviors, 61, 1-7. Kwate, N.O.A., & Loh, J.M. (2016). Fast food and liquor store density, co-tenancy, and turnover: Vice store operations in Chicago, 1995-2008. Applied Geography, 67, 1-13. Kwate, N.O.A., & Goodman, M.S. (2015). Racism at the intersections: Gender and socioeconomic differences in the experience of racism among African Americans. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 85(5), 397-408. Kwate, N.O.A., & Threadcraft, S. (2015). Perceiving the Black female body: Race and gender in police constructions of body weight. Race and Social Problems, 7(3), 213-226. Kwate, N.O.A., & Goodman, M.S. (2015). Cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of racism on the mental health of urban African Americans. American Journal of Public Health, 107, 711-718. Brenner, P.S., LeBlanc, J.L., Roman, A.M., & Kwate, N.O.A. (2015). Safety and solidarity after the Boston Marathon bombing: A comparison of three diverse Boston neighborhoods. Sociological Forum, 30(1), 40-61. Kwate, N.O.A., & Goodman, M.S. (2014). An empirical analysis of White privilege, social position and health. Social Science & Medicine, 116, 150-160. Kwate, N.O.A. (2014). “Racism Still Exists”: A public health intervention using racism "countermarketing" outdoor advertising in a Black neighborhood. Journal of Urban Health, 91(5), 851-872. Martins, M.C*., Diaz, J.E*., Valino, R*., Kwate, N.O.A., & Abraido-Lanza, A.F. (2014). Havens of risks or resources? A study of two Latino neighborhoods in New York City. Journal of Urban Health, 91(3), 477-488. Kwate, N.O.A., Goodman, M.S., Jackson, J*., & Harris, J*. (2013). Spatial and racial patterning of real estate broker listings in New York City. The Review of Black Political Economy, 40(4), 401-424. Kwate 5 Kwate, N.O.A., Loh, J.M., White, K., & Saldana, N.T.*. (2013). Retail redlining in New York City: Racialized access to day-to-day retail resources. Journal of Urban Health, 90(4), 632-652. Kwate, N.O.A., & Meyer, I.H. (2011). On sticks and stones and broken bones: Stereotypes and African American health. Du Bois Review, 8 (1), 191-198. Kwate, N.O.A., & Meyer, I.H. (2010). The myth of meritocracy and African American health. American Journal of Public Health, 100(10), 1831-1834. Kwate, N.O.A., & Loh, J.M. (2010). Separate and unequal: The influence of neighborhood and school characteristics on spatial proximity between fast food and schools. Preventive Medicine, 51(2), 153- 156. Kwate, N.O.A., Meyer, I.H., Eniola, F.*, & Dennis, N.* (2010). Individual and group racism and problem drinking among African American women. Journal of Black Psychology (36)4, 446-457. Kwate, N.O.A., & Meyer, I.H. (2009). Association between residential exposure to outdoor alcohol advertising and problem drinking among African American women in New York City. American Journal of Public Health, 99(2), 228-230 Kwate, N.O.A., Yau, C.Y., Loh, J.M., & Williams, D.* (2009). Inequality in obesigenic environments: Fast food density in New York City. Health & Place, 15, 364-373. Edwards, T.A., Thompson, H.S., Kwate, N.O.A., Brown, K., McGovern, M.M., Formana, A., Kapil-Paira, N., Jandorf, L. Bovbjerg, D.H., & Valdimarsdottir, H.B. (2008). Association between temporal orientation and attitudes about BRCA1/2 testing among women of African descent with family histories of breast cancer. Patient Education and Counseling, 72, 276-282. Kwate, N.O.A. (2008). Fried Chicken and Fresh Apples: Racial Segregation as a Fundamental Cause of Fast Food Density in Black Neighborhoods. Health & Place, 14(1), 32-44. Kwate, N.O.A., Jernigan, M.*, &