October 23, 2025
The Milbank Quarterly
Thursday, October 23, 2025,12:00 p.m.
Structural determinants of health are hierarchical patterns of advantage among socially constructed groups that affect health. Unlike social determinants of health, the structural determinants of health are maintained through power relations.
Panelists include:
- Tyson Brown, Duke University, coauthor of "The Future of Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream to Structural Drivers"
- Jonathan Heller, University of Wisconsin–Madison, coauthor of "Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health"
- Jamila Michener, Cornell University, author of "Building Power for Health: The Grassroots Politics of Sustaining and Strengthening Medicaid" (Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law)
