Tyan Parker Dominguez
Teaching Professor
Health care systems expert, focusing on persistent racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality, pre-term delivery, and low birthweight
Tyan Parker Dominguez
Teaching Professor
Health care systems expert, focusing on persistent racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality, pre-term delivery, and low birthweight
Biography
Tyan Parker Dominguez, PhD, MPH, MSW is the curriculum coordinator for degree programs and a teaching professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Her research focuses on racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes and infant mortality, with an emphasis on racism as a social determinant of health. Parker Dominguez has served on the U.S. Secretary of Health’s Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality and partnered with organizations, such as March of Dimes, on initiatives related to health equity and birth outcome disparities. She is also an expert advisor to the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco.
Parker Dominguez co-chairs the Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Committee within the American Public Health Association’s Maternal and Child Health section (APHA-MCH). She has instructed and mentored students at the master, doctoral and post-doctoral levels. In the MSW program, Parker Dominguez has taught courses in human behavior theory and lifespan development, research and evaluation, leadership, child development and social policy, spirituality, religion, and faith, and diversity. She has served as lead instructor for most of these courses, as well as chair for the MSW program.
Parker Dominguez is a USC Center for Excellence in Teaching Faculty Fellow. She has been honored with the Hutto Patterson Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service, the APHA-MCH Section’s Young Professional of the Year Award, the California Black Women's Health Project's Women Who Dared Award, and is a co-recipient of the Council on Social Work Education’s Community Impact Award.
Education
University of California
PhD 2003
University of California at Berkeley
MPH 1996
University of California at Berkeley
MSW 1995
Rice University
BA 1993
Area of Expertise
- Health Equity
- Maternal and Infant Health
Industry Experience
- Health Care - Services
- Program Development
- Writing and Editing
- Research
- Education/Learning
- Health and Wellness
Research Interest
Accomplishments
Women Who Dared Award
2024, California Black Women's Health Project
USC Center for Excellence in Teaching
Faculty Fellow
Community Impact Award
2019, Council on Social Work Education
Hutton Patterson Award for Distinguished Teaching and Service
2015, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Federal Appointee, Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality
2012, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Young Professional of the Year
2007, APHA-MCH
Articles & Publications
Braveman, P, Heck, K., Dominguez, TP, Marchi, K, Burke, W, & Holm, N (2024). African immigrants’ favorable preterm birth rates challenge genetic etiology of the Black-White disparity in preterm birth. Frontiers in Public Health, 11:1321331. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1321331
Dominguez, T.P. (2024). Person in environment and the social work profession. In M. Dorsey (Ed.). Understanding diversity in human behavior and development in the social environment. Springer Publishing.
California Department of Public Health (2023). Centering Black mothers in California: Insights into racism, health, and well-being for Black women and infants. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Public Health, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division. (expert advisor and co-author) https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DMCAH/Pages/Health-Topics/Centering-Black-Mothers.aspx
Braveman, P & Dominguez, TP (2021). Abandon “race”. Focus on racism. Frontiers in Public Health: Special Issue on Racism as a Public Health Crisis. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.689462
Braveman, P, Dominguez, TP, Burke, W, & the March of Dimes Scientific Consensus Workgroup (2021). Explaining the Black-White disparity in preterm birth: A consensus statement from a multi-disciplinary scientific work group convened by the March of Dimes. Frontiers in Reproductive Health: Special issue on Environmental, Clinical, and Biological Determinants of Preterm Birth and Their Effects on the Offspring. https://doi.org/10.3389/frph.2021.684207
Jackson, FM, Rashied-Henry, K, Braveman, PA, Dominguez, TP, Ramos, D, Maseru, N, Darity, W, Waddel, L, Warne, D, Legaz, G, & James, A. (2020),