Charles Senteio

Charles Senteio's research investigates the collection and use of information to identify causes of persistent racial health inequities, and develop approaches to address them. He uses community-engaged approaches at each stage of the research process, from developing research questions to selecting methods to data collection, analysis, and dissemination. He also teaches graduate students about the challenges and opportunities to engaged scholarship.

Senteio has been the Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on investigations funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the RWJF. In 2023 he received the Rutgers Public Good Pinnacle Award. He also received honorable mention for the Betty J. Cleckley Minority Issues Research Award from the APHA Aging in Public Health Section for promoting Black American elders use of health technology and the SCI LIS Distinguished Achievement in Research award for 2017-2018 and 2019-2020.

His first book will be published by Cambridge University Press in Summer 2026, "Progress Meets Backlash: Perceptions, Cycles of Backlash, and the Struggle for Racial Health Equity." Also, he is a Co-PI, along with Itzhak Yanovitzky and former SC&I assistant professor Gretchen Stahlman, on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project, “Articulating Clear Principles, Practices, and Tools for Centering Health Equity in Public Health Data Dashboards’ Design and Implementation". He is also the PI on a project based in Kenya and Ghana funded by the Rutgers Global Health Institute Seed Grant program, “Addressing Barriers to Mental Health Care for Young Adults in Africa."

Ph.D., Health Informatics, University of Michigan School of Information
M.S.W., Interpersonal Practice & Social Policy, University of Michigan School of Social Work
M.B.A., Business Administration, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science, Central Connecticut State University

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