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David R. Williams
Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health; Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building Room 615, Boston, MA 02115
Select Recent Papers
- Miles to go before we Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health
- Integrating Multiple Social Statuses in Health Disparities Research: The Case of Lung Cancer
- Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contribution
- Beyond the Affordable Care Act: Achieving Real Improvements in America’s Health
- Spirituality, Religion and Health: Evidence and Research Directions
- Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health: Complexities, Ongoing Challenges and Research Opportunities
- The Mental Health of Black Caribbean Immigrants: Results from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL)
20 Highly Cited Publications
- Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Health: Evidence and Needed Research
- Prevalence and Distribution of Major Depressive Disorder in African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites
- Measuring multiple dimensions of religion and spirituality for health research: Conceptual background and findings from the 1998 General Social Survey
- Racial/Ethnic Variations in Women's Health: the Social Embeddedness of Health
- Religious Involvement, Stress and Mental Health: Findings from the 1995 Detroit Area Study
- Racial Residential Segregation: A Fundamental Cause of Racial Disparities in Health
- The Prevalence, Distribution, and Mental Health Correlates of Perceived Discrimination in the United States
- Racism as a Stressor for African Americans: A Biopsychosocial Model
- Race and Health: Basic Questions, Emerging Directions
- Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: The Added Effects of Racism and Discrimination
- Measuring Social Class in U.S. Public Health Research: Concepts, Methodologies, and Guidelines
- Racial Differences in Physical and Mental Health: Socioeconomic Status, Stress, and Discrimination
- U.S. Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations
- Religion and Psychological Distress in a Community Sample
- Socioeconomic Differentials in Health: A Review and Redirection
- Racism and Mental Health: The African American Experience
- Understanding and Reducing Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health
- Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Health: Findings from Community Studies
- The Health of Men: Structured Inequalities and Opportunities
- Social Sources of Racial Disparities in Health
Dr. Williams' Downloadable Publications pre-2006
The South African Stress and Health Study (SASH)
- The South Africa Stress and Health Study: Rationale and Design
- Multiple Traumatic Events and Psychological Distress: The South African Stress and Health Study
- Twelve-month mental disorders in South Africa: prevalence, service use and demographic correlates in the population-based South African Stress and Health Study
- Perceived Discrimination, Race and Health in South Africa: Findings from the South Africa Stress and Health Study
- Lifetime Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in South Africa
- Social determinants of psychological distress in a nationally-representative sample of South African adults
- Prevalence and correlates of non-fatal suicidal behavior among South Africans
- Non-fatal Suicidal Behavior among South Africans: Results from the South Africa Stress and Health Study
- The Impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Psychological Distress and Forgiveness in South Africa
- Physical Violence against intimate partners and related exposures to violence among South African men
- DSM-IV Personality Disorders and their Axis 1 Correlates in the South African Population
- Risk for post-traumatic stress disorder associated with different forms of interpersonal violence in South Africa
- The South African Stress and Health Study (SASH): A Foundation for Improving Mental Health Care in South Africa
- Twelve-Month Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: South African National Probability Household Survey
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder in South Africa: Prevalence, Correlates, and the Role of Traumatic Exposures
- The mental health impact of AIDS-related mortality in South Africa: A national study
- The South African Stress and Health (SASH) study: A scientific base for mental health policy
- The South African Stress and Health Study (SASH)
- Mental health service use among South Africans for mood, anxiety and substance use disorders
- Patterns of substance use in South Africa: Results from the South African Stress and Health study
- The epidemiology of major depression in South Africa: Results from the South African Stress and Health study
- Life stress and mental disorders in the South African Stress and Health study
- Race and Psychological Distress: The South African Stress and Health Study
- Perpetration of gross human rights violations in South Africa: Association with psychiatric disorders
- Perceived discrimination and mental health disorders: The South African Stress and Health study