Krieger has conducted research on the relationship between racism, social class, and health in the United States since the 1980s.[4][2] In 2008, she conducted research that found that socioeconomic disparities in mortality rates had narrowed from 1966 to 1980, but had widened since then.[5] In 2015, she and her colleagues published a paper arguing that law enforcement-related deaths in the United States should be a "notifiable condition", meaning that public health workers would have to report such deaths to a state or local agency.[6] Krieger co-founded the American Public Health Association's Spirit of 1848 caucus which centers their attention on ways to limit social inequities in health. In January 2023, the National Institute of Health granted over $3.3 million towards her groups project examining the effects of discrimination on sleep disorders and psychological distress.[7]
Personal life
Krieger is one of two children of endocrinologist Dorothy Krieger and neurologist Howard Krieger. Her brother, Jim Krieger, is the director of Healthy Food America.[2][8]
