My Biography
Chelsey R. Carter, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Public Health with a secondary appointment in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. She is a native of St. Louis and a Black feminist anthropologist with research interests in medicine, structural inequality, and the determinants of health. She is the Founder & Director of The LEITH (Lived Experiences Igniting Transformations in Health) Lab, a hub to address invisibility and misdiagnosis for underserved Black and Brown communities at the intersection of genomic research, ALS, and other rare neurodegenerative diseases, in honor of anthropologist Dr. Leith Mullings. Her first book project (in progress), Finding the Forgotten: Race, Bias, and Care in the World of ALS, is an ethnography of the diverse experiences of living with ALS and draws on over 15 years of experience with Black communities affected by ALS.