{"id":418,"date":"2018-09-28T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/people\/dorothy-smith-ruiz\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:38:04","slug":"dorothy-smith-ruiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/people\/dorothy-smith-ruiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dorothy Smith Ruiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-485\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Dorothy-Smith-Ruiz-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Smith Ruiz\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Dorothy-Smith-Ruiz-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2018\/09\/Dorothy-Smith-Ruiz.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Associate Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Africana Studies<\/p>\n<p>I received a Ph.D. in sociology from Michigan State University and pursued postdoctoral studies in Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.[read more=&#8217;Read more&#8217; less=&#8217;Read less&#8217;]I was also a Fulbright Scholar. I study race and cultural differences in health behaviors and chronic disease among women of African descent in the U.S., including African American, Afro-Caribbean, and transnational African[\/read]<\/p>\n<p>For more information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/connections\/people\/dorothy-smith-ruiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty Connections &gt; Dr. Dorothy Smith Ruiz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Department of Africana Studies I received a Ph.D. in sociology from Michigan State University and pursued postdoctoral studies in Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.[read more=&#8217;Read more&#8217; less=&#8217;Read less&#8217;]I was also a Fulbright Scholar. I study race and cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[18,10,4,8],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africana-studies","tag-aging","tag-chronic-conditions","tag-mental-health","tag-race"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajj23-6K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}