Health care systems, researchers, and policy makers have dramatically increased attention to theimportance of social determinants of health. However, there remains a lack of clarity surrounding themost effective, community-centered pathways toward population health improvement. Drawing onbioecological developmental systems theory, Dr. Perzynski will review how individual and structuralfactors coalesce to differentiate and determine health and social outcomes for older adults. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Adam Perzynski, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine and Sociology

Case Western Reserve University

With a background in sociology, Adam Perzynski researches strategies to eliminatehealth disparities. In addition to 300+ publications and presentations on socialfactors and health, he edited "Health Disparities: Weaving a New Understanding withCase Narratives" (2019) and co-authored "Structural Equation Modeling for Healthand Medicine" (2021). Adam Perzynski is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society ofAmerica. His career has been dedicated to infusing the study of biomedical scientificproblems with the knowledge, theories, and methods of social science.