Module: 1
Sponsoring Program: Graduate Division
Administrator: D'Anne Duncan
STUDY LIST INFORMATION
Course Number: GRAD 219
Course Name: Research on Racisim in Science: Measured Harm: Violence Epidemiology, Healthcare Disparities, and Black LGBTQ+ Women
Units: 3
Grading Option: S/U
Course Director: D'Anne Duncan
Co-Directors: Daphne Henderson
Other Faculty: Geremy Lowe
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Dates: Monday, March 30 - Friday, April 17, 2026
Campus: Zoom
Schedule: T/TH, 3-5pm (PT)
Minimum Class Size: 4
Maximum Class Size: 12
Violence epidemiology did not simply emerge as a neutral scientific framework in the late twentieth century—it developed alongside healthcare systems that already marginalized Black LGBTQ+ women. As a result, the same epidemiologic tools used to “prevent violence” often reproduce healthcare disparities by rendering Black LGBTQ+ women hyper-visible as risk and invisible as knowers, patients, and rights-bearing subjects. This positions: (1) Violence as both experienced and measured, (2) Healthcare disparities as outcomes of epistemology, not just access, and (3) Black LGBTQ+ women as structurally central, not peripheral.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
1. Explain how violence epidemiology emerged as a public health framework in the late 20th century.
2. Analyze how racial, gender, and sexual governance shape epidemiologic definitions of violence and risk.
3. Examine healthcare disparities affecting Black LGBTQ+ women as both products and consequences of violence surveillance systems.
4. Critique epidemiologic data practices that erase, misclassify, or pathologize Black LGBTQ+ women.
5. Propose equity-centered approaches to violence prevention and healthcare delivery grounded in Black feminist and queer epistemologies.