Rashon Lane Filali

Rashon Lane is a behavioral scientist in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. She specializes in applying behavioral and social research to apply health equity principles in public health programs. Most recently Lane’s worked on the development of health equity indicators in cardiovascular disease and designing equitable evaluation frameworks for structural interventions. She recently completed the National Science Foundation INCLUDES Minority Scholars from Underrepresented Groups in Engineering and the Social Sciences scholars program where she conducted long term recovery research in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Lanes’s disaster research and practice stands at the intersection of sociology and public health in better understanding the social construction of survivor health. She is passionate about reframing scientific discourse of the causes of health as social factors such as racism, poverty and sexism. She provides technical assistance to local, state and international public health departments in development of interventions in the areas of hypertension and dyslipidemia control. Lane is a doctoral candidate in medical sociology at the University of California San Francisco, holds a master’s degree from Claremont Graduate University in applied social psychology, and holds a bachelors from Tuskegee University in psychology.