Gerend studies Black, Latina, and sexual minority women health discrimination

Dec 14, 2022

Mary Gerend, Ph.D., and her co-authors Cylena Stewart, medical student, and Karen Wetzel, graduate student, have studied intersectional issues regarding weight, race, and sexual discrimination. Relatively little is known of how weight discrimination interacts with other forms of negative bias. 

The study identified several key factors regarding the amplification of negative treatment and health consequences regarding socially marginalized women with high body weight. 

Read the study here.