Sharrelle Barber

Dr. Sharrelle Barber is a social epidemiologist and scholar-activist whose research focuses on the intersection of “place, race, and health” and examines the role of structural racism in shaping health and racial/ethnic health inequities among Blacks in the United States and Brazil. Dr. Barber is a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health and the Inaugural Director of the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, & Population Health Equity. The Ubuntu Center’s mission is to unite diverse partners to generate and translate evidence, accelerate antiracism solutions, and transform the health of communities locally, nationally, and globally. 

In 2018, Dr. Barber partnered with Free Southern Media and a team of phenomenal Black Women to co-direct and co-produce a “living” documentary film project entitled, I, A Black Woman Resist, which documents her experience meeting slain Afro-Brazilian activist and politician, Marielle Franco on March 14, 2018. Deeply rooted in the rich legacy of “Black Women Radicals” from the South, the legacy of activism of her beloved alma mater, Bennett College, and experiences that have taken her to cities across the United States and Brazil, Dr. Barber seeks to use empirical research and scholarship to make the invisible visible and mobilize data for action. 

Instagram: @marielleresists