Stigma
Stigma, comprising negative attitudes or beliefs ascribed to certain attributes and characteristics, is also closely associated with discrimination in ways that commonly undermine health in stigmatized people.
Stigma and discrimination have impacts across the health care continuum, impeding access to care, treatment, and other resources as well as negatively impacting mental health and well-being directly. They also lead to responses that extend beyond the provision of health services to include legal, policy and other efforts to address the intersectional realties of stigmatized difference.
Scholars at UCSC employ human rights, social justice and person-centered approaches to situate experiences of discrimination and stigma in cultural and historical context while also addressing the broader inequalities and hierarchies that discrimination and stigma can reproduce.
Faculty
Heather Bullock
Professor and Director of the Blum Center
Psychology Department
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Matt Sparke
Professor
Politics, Executive Director of Global and Community Health
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