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Nao Hagiwara

Professor of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Program on Health Disparities and Community Engagement Research, University of Virginia

Professor of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Program on Health Disparities and Community Engagement Research, University of Virginia Nao Hagiwara, PhD is a Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. With training background in basic experimental social psychology, she grounds her applied health and healthcare disparities research in social psychology theories of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. She has obtained multiple NIH grants on healthcare providers' implicit bias and published over 50 scientific articles and book chapters. Her recent work on provider implicit bias has appeared in flagship journals and scientific magazines, such as the Lancet and Scientific American.