Phone: 804-828-1651
Email: seraskin@vcu.edu
Office Location: Raleigh Building, Room 2015

Sarah Raskin, Ph.D.

Associate professor

EXPERTISE

Public, community, urban, and rural health
Oral health equity, dental safety net, and dental workforce
Cultural humility
Qualitative, ethnographic, mixed methods, and community-engaged research

TEACHING

Community health and healthy communities; public health emergency preparedness; capstone project design; qualitative research methods

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dental safety policy implementation, dental workforce equity, dental social responsibility; Political and moral economies of oral health; Service learning and cultural competency in dental education; The history of structural racism in U.S. professional dentistry

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Sarah E. Raskin, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Urban and Regional Studies and Planning Program at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, a member of the iCubed Oral Health Equity interdisciplinary research core, and a courtesy faculty member in the VCU School of Dentistry's Department of Dental Public Health and Policy. Cross-trained in medical anthropology, health services research, and public health, Dr. Raskin conducts mixed methods and community engaged research on dental safety net policy and practice in the U.S. through an intersectional lens, with an emphasis on the political and moral economies of oral health service delivery. Her research has been funded by the VCU Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, National Science Foundation, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and published in all major dental journals including the Journal of the American Dental Association, JDR - Clinical and Translational Research, the Journal of Dental Education, and Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. A 2023 recipient of the Wilder School award for Excellence in Service, 2020 recipient of the Wilder School award for Excellence in Mentoring, and 2015 recipient of the Society for Medical Anthropology’s Rudolf Virchow award for graduate student writing, she is co-President-elect of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy, a Legal Observer Coordinator with the Washington DC Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and an ongoing collaborator on the Virginia Health Catalyst's Future of Public Oral Health working group.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2023 Raskin, Sarah E., Madhuli Thakkar-Samtani, Morgan Santoro, Eleanor B. Fleming, Lisa J. Heaton, Eric Tranby. Discrimination and Dignity Experiences in Prior Oral Care Visits Predict Racialized Oral Health Inequities Among Nationally Representative US Adults. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-023-01821-0

2023 Zimmerman, Emily B. and Sarah E. Raskin. Envisioning the Engaged University through Intentional Development and Support of Community-Engaged Research. Metropolitan Universities. https://doi.org/10.18060/27619

2023 Phillips, Serena, Sarah E. Raskin, Cherise Harrington, Darla Bishop, Frances Gany. "Like pouring salt in a wound": A qualitative exploration of the consequences of unmet housing needs for cancer patients and survivors in New York City. Journal of psychosocial oncology. https://doi.org/10.1080/07347332.2022.2136025

2023 Fleming, Eleanor B., João L. Bastos, Lisa Jamieson, Roger K. Celeste, Sarah E. Raskin, Noha Gomaa, Colman McGrath, Tamanna Tiwari. Conceptualizing inequities and oppression in oral health research. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12822

2022 Raskin, Sarah E. The cultural politics of dental humanitarianism In: Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and Theory. Claire L. Jones and Barry J. Gibson, eds. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003047674

2022 Fleming, Eleanor, Mercedez Agyemfra, Nnamdi Anige, Sarah E. Raskin. Building sustainable approaches to recruit, retain and professionalize Black, Latinx, and American Indian students interested in dental careers. Journal of Dental Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/jdd.13019

2021 Raskin, Sarah E., Vuong Diep, Katherine Chung-Bridges, Lisa Heaton, Julie Frantsve-Hawley. Dental safety net providers’ experiences with COVID-19 year one service delivery should inform dental pandemic preparedness. Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adaj.2021.11.005

2021 Burton, Dana,* Sarah E. Raskin, Leyla Safta-Zecheria, and Paul Stubbs.Anti-Racism for an Anthropology of Policy Otherwise. Anthropology News. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/anti-racism-for-an-anthropology-of-policy-otherwise/

2021 Stuart, Elizabeth A., Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, Natalie Exum, and Sarah E. Raskin. A four-point plan to vaccinate America's elementary-school-age children. The Hill. Nov 11. Available at: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/580905-a-four-point-plan-to-vaccinate-americas-elementary-school-age-children?rl=1