
Sarah Elizabeth Gollust
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Gollust's research examines the influence of the media and public opinion in the health policy process; the dissemination of research into policymaking; and the politics of health policy. She has focused this research agenda on a range of timely topics in public health; including childhood obesity; cancer screening; the Affordable Care Act; and COVID-19. She is also a Senior Advisor for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders; a national program based at the University of Minnesota that supports community-engaged health equity research.
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Evaluates how signals about racial- and class-group membership as well as causal attributes for disease shape public attitudes about deservingness for financial support of health care.