Thomas A. LaVeist

Thomas A. LaVeist is the dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was previously the chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health. He focuses mainly on the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in the health field.

He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals, including ''Health Affairs'', ''Journal of General Internal Medicine'', ''American Journal of Public Health'', ''American Journal of Epidemiology'', ''American Journal of Sociology'', ''Milbank Quarterly'', ''Medical Care'', ''Journal of the American College of Cardiology'', ''Ethnicity and Disease'', ''Health Services Research'', and ''Social Science & Medicine''. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Center for Disease Control, Department of Defense, Commonwealth Fund, Sage Foundation, and the Agency for Healthcare Research. Provided by Wikipedia