Dr. Chandra Ford is Professor jointly appointed in Behavioral, Social & Health Education Sciences and African American Studies at Emory University. She is co-editor with Derek Griffith of Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional (APHA Press, 2024), the first edition of which was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 by the American Library Association. Previously, she founded and directed the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health. Dr. Ford earned her doctorate in Health Behavior from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Social Medicine (UNC School of Medicine) and Epidemiology (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health), the latter as a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Kellogg Health Scholar. Her areas of expertise include Critical Race Theory, social epidemiology, the health and healthcare impacts of racism, and the conceptualization and measurement of race and ethnicity.