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Richard Sadler

Richard Sadler
  • C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health
  • Established through a gift from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
  • Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health
  • Family Medicine

Bio

Richard Sadler is an associate professor and a C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health in the Department of Family Medicine and the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health in Flint. His research is aimed at strengthening the understanding between the built environment and health behaviors/outcomes, with the goal of shaping land use policy to build healthier cities. A Flint native, his work is deeply integrated with community organizations and leans heavily on geographic information systems to identify and address disparities in the social determinants of health.

He says, “My work is underpinned by an upbringing oriented around compassion and stewardship, experiential training in cultural competence, and a recognition of historical processes of discrimination which have exacerbated spatial and health inequalities.”

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