Ellis Monk Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Faculty Associate Ellis Monk, associate professor of sociology at Harvard University, is one of the recipients of the 2022 New Innovator Awards. Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, the award supports exceptionally creative early career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects in the biomedical, behavioral, or social sciences within the National Institute of Health mission. Monk received the award for his project, “The Optics of Health: Race Skin Tone Minority Health and Health Disparities in the US.”