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- A Fireside Chat with Dr. Sherman James and Kevin Dedner, Founder of Henry Health
July 21, 2020. HenryHealth founder, Kevin Dedner, sits down for a Fireside Chat with Dr. Sherman James, the originator of the John Henryism Hypothesis. Welcome by Tony Spann.
- APHA Epidemiology Section 2016 Awards Session
- Awards and recognitions from the Society for Epidemiologic Research
- Biographical page for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars National Advisory Committee
- Building Health Equity in an Unequal World: Sherman A. James
"Persist! The Long and Bumpy Road Toward Racial Health Equity in America" presented by Dr. Sherman A. James, November 16, 2017. This talk is the keynote of Building Health Equity in an Unequal World, a collaborative lecture series presented by the Brown University School of Public Health and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Dr. James was introduced by Dr. Ron Aubert.
- Celebration of Sherman James on his retirement from the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy
The May 13, 2014 symposium included presentations by Woody Neighbors, Arlene Geronimus, Jay Pearson, Barbara Israel, and numerous others. The page also includes links to the 2014 interview that Sherman recorded with Bill Jenkins and also of Sherman's guest appearance in the class that Bill and Vic taught that spring.
- EPID799C Guest appearance (1 hour)
Sherman James was the guest presenter in EPID799C, Social Justice and Equality - In Search of John Cassel's Epidemiology, a seminar course co-led by Victor Schoenbach and Bill Jenkins in the Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
- Epidemiologic Research on Health Disparities: Some Thoughts on History and Current Developments
Sherman A. James, Epidemiologic Reviews. 1 Nov 2009;31(1):1-6://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxp010 In this introduction to volume 31 of Epidemiologic Reviews, the author traces the history of health disparities research in epidemiology and situates the 10 review articles comprising this edition within this history. With the aid of a conceptual model describing the key determinants of health disparities, he offers several suggestions for improving future epidemiologic research on health disparities.
- Healing the Wounds: The Health Disparities Legacy of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement (1 hr 26 m)
The annual Health Sciences Program MLK presentation features Sherman A. James delivering his keynote speech on January 17, 2011 at Dow Auditorium, University of Michigan
- Interview about his journey to epidemiology
Sherman A. James was interviewed by Bill Jenkins. The interview was recorded by Vic Schoenbach. Date: February 27, 2014 in the "faculty library" of the Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
- Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
After the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Health Legacy of the 1960s Civil Rights Era in a Southern Community Award Year: 2008 During the years immediately following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gaps in health and access to medical care between black and white Americans began to narrow. How did civil rights legislation and newly created social programs help lead to those health improvements? Sherman A. James, Ph.D. probes this question in his project, After the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Health Legacy of the 1960's Civil Rights Era in a Southern Community. Through a case study of Pitt County, North Carolina, a poor rural southern community, Dr. James looks at the activities of those who led the desegregation of the county hospital and efforts by citizen activists, voluntary organizations, community leaders, and the press to open the doors of opportunity. Using the fundamental cause framework developed by Investigator Awardees Jo Phelan, Ph.D., and Bruce Link, Ph.D., Dr. James analyzes how access to money, knowledge, prestige, power, and social connections is linked to population health and to the success of public policies. His findings should help illuminate the role civil society plays in distributing life-enhancing resources more fairly and in facilitating or impeding public policies aimed at improving the health of all Americans.
- John Cassel: An Appreciation and Some Brief Reflections
Preface to the 2012 John C. Cassel Lecture at the Society for Epidemiologic Research annual meeting, Minneapolis MN It seems like just a few years ago, rather than an astounding 39 years, that I first met John Cassel. In early 1973, he was the renowned Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and I was an “ABD” (all but dissertation) graduate student in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. On a lark, I had accepted the invitation from a search committee, appointed by Cassel, to interview for the “psychologist” faculty position that had opened up the previous year due to the departure of David Jenkins (of Type A Behavior fame) to Boston University.
- Persist! The Long and Bumpy Road Toward Racial Health Equity in America
Sherman A. James, Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Duke University, gave the keynote for Building Health Equity in an Unequal World, a collaborative lecture series presented by the Brown University School of Public Health and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. November 16, 2017.
- President's Corner, Society for Epidemiologic Research winter 2008 newsletter
- Race against the machine (2003 alumni bulletin article)
Sherman James' hypothesis on "John Henryism" states that the psychological stress resulting from persistent social and economic oppression contributes to health problems in African Americans. C.B. Adams. Washington University in St. Louis magazine, spring 2003
- SER-at-this-Moment-webinar_June15-2020.pdf
- Sherman James and the John Henryism Hypothesis
In this 20-minute documentary produced by historian Karin Shapiro, epidemiologist Sherman James recounts his story of becoming a social epidemiologist and developing the concept of John Henryism.
- Sherman James receives Wade Hampton Frost Lectureship Award
From the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association, at the Annual Meeting in Denver CO, October 31, 2016
- ShermanJames-WadeHamptonFrostLecture-2016.pdf
See accompanying MP3 audio file of the lecture.
- ShermanJames-WadeHamptonFrostLecture-20161031 (MP3, 66 min)
Audio of 2016 Wade Hampton Frost Lecture - see accompanying PDF.