Fernando De Maio, PhD
Vice President, Health Equity Research and Data Use | Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Dr. Fernando De Maio is Vice President of Health Equity Research and Data Use at the American Medical Association’s Center for Health Equity, and a Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago. He is an expert in medical sociology and social epidemiology, with a focus on the concept of structural violence. His work has been guided by the notion of 'radical statistics' – the idea that statistical analysis can be used to not just describe the world, but to change it.
He is the author of several books on the sociology of health, including his most recently, Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America’s Largest Cities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). He currently serves as a commissioner on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems.
