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This seminar provides the student with a study of health equity across the life course. Students will have the opportunity to critically analyze how structural inequities, social determinants of health, and health equity connect, while examining theories, concepts and methods related to health equity research. Emphasis is on the current state of the science and research approaches including stakeholder engagement, biological and social measurement, data science, and implementation research to promote health equity. Implications for research, health system, public health, and policy will be examined. Students will engage in scholarly discourse and develop their research interests in this field culminating a conference ready scientific presentation of their findings based on research synthesis.