Affiliation Years
2023 Cohort
Safyer McKenzie-Sampson is a Ph.D. recipient in epidemiology and translational science from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. Her research explores how exposure to structural and interpersonal racism during pregnancy and the postpartum period influences the risk of adverse perinatal outcomes in Black communities, with the goal of translating findings into interventions to increase birth justice.
Safyer’s dissertation investigated neighborhood-level structural racism as a risk factor for preterm birth and small-for-gestational-age birth among American- and African-born Black women currently residing in California.
She joins the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics.