Samuel Baxter PhD, MPH

Samuel Baxter is an emerging scholar advocate who is passionate about improving the lived experiences of boys and men across their life trajectories. He is interested in understanding how racial disparities in health emerge among young men and leveraging this knowledge to create intervention strategies and policy-relevant solutions to create a Culture of Health that improves the health trajectories of African-American men. Current research interests include the social determinants of health, cardiovascular health, and stress.

Mr. Baxter is a doctoral candidate studying Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC. His dissertation explores racial differences in the relationship between residential segregation and heart health among young men. Prior to coming to UNC, he worked as a research assistant on prison health and reentry support programs at Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved, a division of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute. Samuel earned his BS in Sociology with a minor in Pan-African Studies from Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, and his MPH from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.