ABOUT
Through research and engagement, we seek to examine the intersection of inequity and joy within the Black community with the ultimate goal of improving health and wealth for the benefit of all.
The Black Health and Wealth Equity Lab, through research and education, promotes examining and unpacking the systemic factors that impact the health and wealth of the Black community in the U.S. and amplifies what undergirds the community’s ability to center joy despite the outcomes associated with health disparities and wealth inequality.
OUR FOUNDER
Shontay Delalue, PhD, MPH
Shontay Delalue, PhD, MPH currently serves as a Senior Vice President at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. She is the senior strategist and thought partner working with institutional leadership on Dartmouth’s key areas of focus inclusive of diversity and global engagement.
In her career, she has worked in admissions, academic advising, counseling, international affairs as well as civil rights and immigration compliance in Maine, Alaska, and Rhode Island.
Dr. Delalue teaches at Dartmouth in the Geisel School of Medicine’s Master of Public Health program and the Tuck Business School’s Management Essentials program. Her research focuses on aspects of health disparities, wealth inequality and cohort immersion programs abroad.
Her current work includes a graphic medicine comic on ‘medical misogynoir’ funded through an Arts Integration Grant, a qualitative study on 1st generation college students financial knowledge funded by the TIAA Institute and a pilot on early career administrators cultural immersion in Ghana West Africa.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication and a Master of Education (counseling), both from the University of Maine. She earned a Ph.D. in Education through a joint program of the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College. To complement her current work, she earned a Master of Public Health from Dartmouth College to address health disparities that impact underrepresented groups.
She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and holds several appointments including as a Research Fellow with the TIAA Institute and member of the TIAA Financial Education and Community Council, Chair of the University of Maine Board of Visitors, and outgoing Co-chair of the Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network. Originally from New Jersey, she is a proud first-generation college graduate and an avid traveler having been to 48 U.S. states and over 30+ countries on all seven continents always exploring what makes us unique and similar.