An Expanded Definition of Intersectional Stigma for Public Health Research and Praxis

Kirsty M Sievwright1, Anne L Stangl1, Laura Nyblade1

  • 1Kirsty M. Sievwright and Anne Stangl are with the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Laura Nyblade is with the Global Health Division, International Development Group, RTI International, Washington, DC. Sheri A. Lippman, Sophia Zamudio-Haas, Sheri Weiser, and Jae M. Sevelius are with the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Carmen H. Logie is with the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Maria Amélia Veras is with the Collective Health, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Tonia Poteat is with the Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill. Deepa Rao is with the Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle. John E. Pachankis is with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT. M. Kumi Smith is with the Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis. Ronald Brooks is with the Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

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