Nick Greatz is assistant professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Sociology and at the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation. Greatz works at the intersection of population health, urban sociology, and political economy. His primary research focus has been revealing the mechanisms through which the housing market entrenches racial inequalities in health. While it’s well known that structural inequalities shape population health, Greatz has developed new data and tools to isolate and quantify specifically how factors like redlining, eviction, and housing costs create cumulative disadvantage—and the ways in which different actors profit from these arrangements.
