Katey E. Mari// COVID-19 has created yet another structural barrier for equitable access to healthcare and health among Black pregnant women in the US, particularly in areas affected by racial residential segregation. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, discussions surrounding the social determinants of health as they relate to COVID-19 morbidity and mortality trends…
Author: Katey E. Mari
Katey Mari is a PhD student in the anthropology program at The University of Pennsylvania with a focus on biocultural anthropology and public health. Her research interests include how the experience of psychosocial stress stemming from historical trauma in mothers can alter immune function and stress reactivity in infants. She is specifically interested in the intergenerational transmission of historical trauma, resilience, and how the experience of racial discrimination reinforces health disparities. Katey received her B.A. in anthropology and public and global health from the University of Georgia in 2019.
ICE’s Forced Hysterectomies Expose the Uneven Nature of Women’s Reproductive Rights in the US
Katey E. Mari // Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a champion for women’s reproductive rights throughout her time on the bench. In the wake of the death of Justice Ginsburg and the uncertain nature of her successor, many women fear for the fate of reproductive freedoms in the US. In light of recent…