Janet L. Scott-Harris, M.B.M., M.A., is a W. K. Kellogg Fellow in Health Policy Research at the Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, where she is a candidate for a Ph.D. in social policy. She currently conducts research at the Institute for Community Health Promotion at Brown University. Her research interests focus on the socioeconomic-political context of racial and ethnic health disparities in general and black/white health disparities specifically. She is employed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and serves as the Regional Program Consultant for Minority Health in the Office of the Regional Health Administrator, Office of Public Health and Science, Region I.