Rachel Hardeman is a Reproductive Health Equity Researcher whose work has significantly shifted the field's ability to name and operationalize structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities. Furthermore, her research and scholarly activities have made health inequities due to racism more visible and offered empirical evidence as to the ways that public health might intervene on the growing racial inequities in health and health care in our country through health care systems change, medical education and policy. Currently Professor Hardeman is investigating ways to quantitatively measure structural racism and its impact on health outcomes like maternal morbidity and mortality where Black women are 3-4 times more likely to die in the United States.