Clare Xanthos

Clare Xanthos, PhD is a researcher and writer whose work is informed by racial equity, health equity, social justice, and cultural identity. She has lived and worked in several countries including the USA, Barbados, the UK, and Nigeria.

While at the Morehouse School of Medicine, Dr. Xanthos served as an editor for an important book entitled "Social Determinants of Health among African-American Men" (2012); she is also the lead author of an article of the same name. Social Determinants of Health among African-American Men was the first book to methodically address the impact of social factors, especially racism, on the health of African-American men. Moreover, it reframes the outmoded victim-blaming approach to Black men’s health, which unfairly portrays Black men as “‘hard to reach’ with ‘poor help-seeking attitudes and behaviors.’”