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Gabriel L. Schwartz, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, with a secondary appointment in Nursing at Drexel's College of Nursing and Health Professions. He is also a faculty member at the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative.
Dr. Schwartz's educational background includes:
- PhD in Population Health Sciences from Harvard University
- BA degrees in Human Biology and Sociology from Brown University
- Postdoctoral training at University of California, San Francisco
As a social epidemiologist, Dr. Schwartz's research focuses on how social stratification and the places we live shape health across the life course. His work treats structural, racialized exploitation as a population health problem, examining issues including housing insecurity, segregation, and the criminal legal system. Dr. Schwartz is particularly interested in the health impacts of eviction, how racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods affects health trajectories as children age, and the population health burden of police violence. His methodological expertise includes quantitative approaches and quasi-experimental designs to establish causal pathways between structural factors and health outcomes.
Analysis of Dr. Schwartz's recent publications reveals a cohesive research program examining structural determinants of health. His work consistently employs rigorous epidemiological methods to investigate how housing insecurity, segregation, and criminal justice involvement create health disparities. A significant portion of his research focuses on school and residential segregation's impacts on Black populations across the life course, while other work examines eviction's consequences for healthcare access and cognitive development, and police violence as a public health issue requiring systematic measurement and intervention.
Dr. Schwartz's research has been published in high-impact journals including JAMA Network Open, PLOS Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, and Pediatrics. His publications demonstrate interdisciplinary reach, connecting public health with education policy, criminal justice reform, and housing policy. His work often involves large-scale datasets and innovative methodological approaches to address questions of causality in social epidemiology, making significant contributions to understanding how structural racism operates through institutions to produce health inequities.
