Faculty

Sarah Raskin

Associate professor

Raleigh Building, Room 3009D Phone: (804) 828-1651 Email: seraskin@vcu.edu

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

Education

B.A.I.S., George Mason University

M.P.H., Emory University

Ph.D, University of Arizona

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, Ph.D., 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.

Key Publications

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 Raskin, Sarah E., Eric P. Tranby, Sharity Ludwig, Ilya Okunev, Julie Frantsve-Hawley, and Sean Boynes. Survival of silver diamine fluoride as a non-aerosol generating procedure among patients treated in community dental clinics. BMC Oral Health 21, 35 https://bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12903-020-01379-x

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 Zimmerman, Emily B., Sarah E. Raskin, Brian Ferrell*, Alex H. Krist. Developing a classification system and algorithm to track community-engaged research using IRB protocols at a large research university. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 1-18. https://doi:10.1017/cts.2021.877

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

2020 Raskin, Sarah E. Parents’ experiences with a school-based dental sealant project in central Appalachia. Health Behavior and Policy Review 7:215-222(8). doi.org/10.14485/HBPR.7.3.6

2020 Akinkugbe, Aderonke A., Sarah E. Raskin, Richard H. Singer, Tracy L. Finlayson, Marston Youngblood, Nadia Laniado, Shirley Beaver, Linda Kaste. Perceived oral health care need and actual oral health status in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). J. Public Health Dentistry. doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12376

2019 Phillips, Serena, Sarah Raskin, Francesca Gany, Ruta Brazinskaite, and Cherise Harrington. “You have to keep a roof over your head”: A taxonomy of housing needs among cancer patients and survivors in New York City. J. Oncology Practice. doi/pdf/10.1200/JOP.19.00077

2017 Raskin, Sarah. “Toothless Maw-maw can’t eat no more”: Stigma and synergies of dental disease, diabetes, and psychosocial stress among low-income rural Appalachians In: Stigma syndemics: New directions in biosocial health. Shir Lerman, Bayla Ostrach, and Merrill Singer, eds. Pp. 193-216. Lanham MA: Lexington Books.