Prof. Carolyn B. Murray
University of California Riverside
Carolyn Murray is the recipient of
the 2018 Dr. William Montague Cobb award for special achievements in
public health at the local level
Carolyn
B. Murray, a professor of psychology at the University of California,
Riverside, has been awarded the 2018 Dr. William Montague Cobb award for
special achievements in public health at the local level, presented
annually by the National Health Committee of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP.
The
award is given to an outstanding individual in a local community “in
recognition of special achievement in areas of social justice, health
justice advocacy, health education, health promotion, fundraising, and
research.”
Murray
earned the honor for her many years of research and activism addressing
health disparities in the African American community. She will receive
the award on July 16 at the Annual NAACP Convention in San Antonio,
Texas.
Broadly,
Murray’s research covers ethnicity, race, and health. She has published
extensively on doctor-patient interactions, how culture is a factor in
health, how racism and mental health are linked, the psychology of
health disparities among African Americans, gender disparities in
physician-patient communication among African American patients in
primary care, and how mental health disparities in the African American
population in California can be addressed and eliminated.
Says
Murray: “Life expectancy has decreased two years in a row for
Americans, a grave concern that is largely unreported. This award will
serve as a reminder that my crusade against health disparities,
particularly in the African American community, must continue. Our work
is far from done.”
For more information, please visit: https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/54488
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