Moushumi Roy, PhD: Dr. Moushumi Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Virginia State University. Roy’s primary area of research focuses on the ways social determinants and processes influence health outcomes among minority populations in the US and India. Her research interests lie at the intersection of structural inequality, social condition, and population health among different groups of people in the US and India. Her research examines the way structure and systems of different societies change the experiences of different groups of people –i.e., immigrants, migrants, race/caste, ethnicity, gender, older people – to produce inequality (e.g., advantaged, disadvantaged, and ultra-disadvantaged) and health disparity among populations. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Aging and Health. Her recent publication titled, “It Makes a Difference!” Religion and Self-Assessed Health among Healthcare Support Professionals of Asian-Indian Origin is published in Religions, 2023. Her collaborative publication, forthcoming in November 2024 used qualitative method-autoethnography- to explore interaction between transnational immigrant parents and adult children abroad during COVID-19. She is currently serving as the Vice President of Virginia Social Science Conference.