Amandeep Kaur is a doctoral candidate in the Psychological Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. Amandeep co-developed the “Social-Cognitive Framework for Understanding the Effects of Racism on Health”, a theoretical framework that helps explain how subjective experiences of discrimination—at multiple levels—interact with complex biopsychosocial and cognitive intermediary pathways to impact health. Recently, she co-authored a manuscript for the Social Issues and Policy Review, providing a framework for understanding how structural racism (i.e., cultural communications of prejudice and discriminatory institutional laws and policies) shape health outcomes via: 1) greater exposures to threat (e.g., residential and occupational segregation); and 2) restrictions to critical resources (e.g., economic and social capital). As an emerging critical health psychologist, Amandeep’s program of research draws on multidisciplinary theories and varied analytic approaches to examine and explain the complex and dynamic associations between individuals, the multiple contexts in which they are embedded, and health equities.
Ms. Kaur is a 2023 AcademyHealth Diversity Scholar.