This Q&A interview by Karen Weintraub was conducted with Center-affiliated faculty member David R. Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and a professor of African and African-American Studies in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Williams discusses his most recently published study, co-authored by Center postdoctoral fellow Natalie Slopen and Michelle Sternthal, which examines racial inequality and health.