The Minority Health Disparities Initiative will feature the University of Arizona’s Russell Toomey in a 10:30 a.m. March 31 lecture in the Nebraska Union’s Heritage Room. The talk is free and open to the public.
Toomey is an assistant professor of family studies and human development at the University of Arizona. His research examines malleable contextual (such as family and schools) and individual-level (identity processes) factors that contribute to and mitigate health disparities experienced by marginalized adolescents in the United States. His research has examined these relationships with explicit attention to the minority-specific stressors of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination that contribute to the disparate rates of negative outcomes experienced by sexual and gender minority and Latino youth, and the culturally-relevant protective factors that buffer these associations.
Toomey completed a National Institutes of Health-funded postdoctoral fellowship in Arizona State University’s Prevention Research Center and the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. He also served on the faculty at Kent State University.
Toomey is associate editor for the Journal of Adolescent Research and is a recipient of the Society for Research on Adolescence Young Investigator Award from the NIH.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Minority Health Disparities Initiative focuses on the existing and growing health disparities in minority populations. For more information, click here.