Message from Antonio Merlo, PhD

Dean, School of Social Sciences

 

We are tremendously proud to host the 15th Annual Summer Workshop: Health Disparities in America. Health inequality is an excellent example of the type of issues we are working to improve at Rice University’s School of Social Sciences.

 

One of my proudest achievements from my first year as dean is launching an undergraduate degree with a unique focus on social policy analysis that teaches students how to develop solutions for society’s greatest challenges. 

Our focus is on evidence-based evaluation of alternative interventions that propose to improve human well-being. Many of our faculty and students share a deep interest in addressing health disparities and promoting health equity, and I look forward to taking what we learn from this conference and applying it to our research and teaching.