Sabrina McCormick
Sabrina McCormick, PhD is a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently on leave from her position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University. Dr. McCormick's work on the intersections of medicine, science and inequality are reflected in her forthcoming books No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer and Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation and the Remaking of Knowledge. She has also published more than 25 articles and book chapters on these topics. Dr. McCormick is a documentary filmmaker, whose current project No Family History will soon be released. This film will be used in a national organizing campaign to draw attention to the need for a preventive approach to breast cancer that acknowledges and moves beyond the political economy of disease.
Dr. McCormick's most recent work explores the contentious processes through which illness events related to climate change are perceived, addressed and institutionalized. By examining West Nile Virus and heat-induced illness and mortality, she is creating a broad-scale model of social responses to climate and illness. This project and others have been supported by the Robert Wood Johnson, Tinker, Tides and Henry Luce Foundations, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.