Public health scholars have examined racial disparities in health in the United States broadly and in specific cities, but this is the first edited collection to focus on African Americans in the South both as a whole and as a distinct population.

Steven S. Coughlin (AUGUSTA, GA) is a professor and interim Chief of the Division of Epidemiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. He is the author of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Chronic Diseases and the Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research.Lovoria B. Williams (LEXINGTON, KY) is an associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing. She is the Associate Director of Cancer Health Equity at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. Tabia Henry Akintobi (MABLETON, GA) is a professor and chair of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, an Associate Dean of Community Engagement, and the Principal Investigator of the Prevention Research Center at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is a coauthor of The Morehouse Model: How One School of Medicine Revolutionized Community Engagement and Health Equity.