Our Team

Richard Hofrichter, PhD

Board Member – Washington, DC

Richard Hofrichter is Senior Analyst for Health Equity, National Association of County & City Health Officials (since 1994). With Rajiv Bhatia, he is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: Theory to Action (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Richard is also a writer and social critic, and the editor of Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2003); Reclaiming the Environmental Debate: The Politics of Health in a Toxic Culture (MIT Press, 2000); and Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice (New Society Publishers, 1993), as well as the author of Neighborhood Justice in Capitalist Society: The Expansion of the Informal State (Greenwood Press, 1987). He serves on the CDC Social Determinants of Health Workgroup for Healthy People 2020.

His interests include developing strategies for acting on the root causes of inequity in the distribution of disease and illness and methods to incorporate principles of social justice into public health practice, as well as exploring the negative and systematic influence of corporate decision-making on health outcomes. Richard received his PhD from the City University of New York, 1983.