Racial Inequities in Professional Football Playing Careers: Patterns and Trends

Rob Warren | Speaker Bio:
Professor Rob Warren is a sociologist, demographer, population health scholar, and education policy researcher with experience and expertise in the collection, production, and dissemination of large-scale data products for research on health, aging, education, and labor force outcomes through my NIH- and NSF-funded work on High School and Beyond (HSB), the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), the 1940 U.S. Census, and the IPUMS version of the Current Population Surveys (IPUMS-CPS). He is involved in the construction of the new 100% count historical Census data sets for IPUMS, and has two ongoing NIH-funded projects to link early 20th-century U.S. Census data to:
(1) Several modern surveys of older Americans, including the HRS, PSID, and WLS 
(2) Recent mortality records from the Social Security Administration.

Michael Esposito | Speaker Bio:
Associate Professor, Michael Esposito's research identifies the structural mechanisms that generate population health inequality in the US, with a particular focus on racial and class-based disparities. He examines how Black and working-class Americans have consistently experienced disproportionate illness and premature death compared to their White and professional-class peers. His work demonstrates that these durable disparities stem from racism and classism embedded in our political, economic, and social systems -- powerful organizing logics that have kept health-relevant privileges and imposed hazards allocated along similar lines for as long as we've been collecting population health data.

Both Michael and Rob are members of the Minnesota Population Center (MPC), whose mission is to advance knowledge of human populations and institutions across time and space with a focus on health, well-being, economic and demographic behavior, and human-environment interactions.