Janet Shim

I am Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. My program of research focuses on two areas: the sociological analysis of health sciences, particularly how they understand social difference and health inequality, and the study of healthcare interactions and how they produce unequal outcomes. More specifically, I am currently working on studies that examine how safety net healthcare institutions can provide care to marginalized populations, and how mandates for diversity and inclusion are shaping research practices. My work has been funded by the US National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. I’m a co-editor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S. (Duke University Press, 2010) and the author of Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease (New York University Press, 2014).