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Madina Agénor, ScD, MPH is Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is also Adjunct Faculty at The Fenway Institute and leads the Sexual Health and Reproductive Experiences (SHARE) Lab. As a social epidemiologist and interdisciplinary health equity scholar, Dr. Agénor investigates health inequities in relation to multiple social identities and inequities—especially sexual orientation and heterosexism, race/ethnicity and racism, and gender, sexism, and cisgenderism—using an intersectional lens and a mixed-methods research approach. Specifically, she uses quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the structural and social determinants of sexual and reproductive health and cancer screening and prevention among mutliply marginalized groups at diverse intersections of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Dr. Agénor completed postdoctoral research training in cancer prevention equity at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2013-2015) and was Visiting Research Faculty at the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (2017-2019). She holds a Doctor of Science (ScD, 2013) in Social and Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in Women, Gender, and Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Master of Public Health (MPH, 2008) in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a bachelor’s degree (AB, 2005) in Community Health and Gender Studies from Brown University. Prior to joining the Brown University faculty, Dr. Agénor was faculty at Harvard University and Tufts University. Originally from Martinique and Haiti, she grew up in the Washington, D.C. area.