I’m an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty in Global and Community Health at University of California, Santa Cruz. As a sociologist, I study the health effects of structural inequity, with a particular interest on their modifiability through policy and other types of social change. Much of my recent research focuses on mortality inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have methodological expertise in complex survey analysis and substantive knowledge in older adult health, life course theory, racialization, Critical Race Theory, and health inequality theory.
I completed my postdoctoral training at the University of California-San Francisco, my PhD and MA in Sociology at the University of Chicago, my MPH in Epidemiology/Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and my MA in Latin American Studies at Stanford University.
Prior to pursuing doctoral studies, I worked in community health in non-profit and government settings focused on health issues facing Latino communities in the U.S. and Mexico. I have a longstanding involvement in immigrant rights organizing.
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alicia[dot]riley[at]ucsc[dot]edu
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