Join us on Thursday, September 28th, 2023, for a presentation on the work of the Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Research Network and Black Women and Mortality in the UK with Dr. Jenny Douglas. Dr Jenny Douglas is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University. The focus of her research and activism, is intersectionality – exploring how ‘race’, class and gender affect particular aspects of African - Caribbean women’s health. She established and chairs the Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Research Network (www.open.ac.uk/black-womens-health-and-wellbeing). She is a medical sociologist with a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of York. She was a Visiting Scholar at George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA, during the tenure of a National Centre for Research Methods Fellowship on intersectionality informed research methods. She is a Plumer Visiting Research Fellow at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. She is an honorary member of the Faculty of Public Health and is a director of the UK Public Health Register.