Dr. Shekinah Fashaw-Walters PhD, MSPH

About Me

I am an antiracist health services researcher, and my work centers on the health, autonomy, and dignity of older adults. This work of antiracism is fueled by love, and my relationship with my grandparents are a driver for why I do what I do today. All older adults deserve culturally- and racially-appropriate care, and my work shows that "colorblind" approaches to health policy for older adults are contributing to racialized health inequities in access to quality care. This is a fixable problem, and I am committed to identifying and advocating for the solutions at a systems level.

I am one of CARHE's Faculty Affiliates at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management. I am the PI of a subaward from the University of California Davis,  I lead the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Project und the RWJF funded Policies For Action grant, and I am a co-investigator on the Evidence For Action funded grant on measuring structural racism. I was appointed to the 2022 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Aging Studies, named a NIA Butler Williams Scholar, and earned the 2022 NASI John Heinz Dissertation Award and the 2022 Academy Health Outstanding Dissertation Award.    

I earned my BS from the University of Central Florida, my MSPH from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and my PhD from Brown University.

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