Dr. Latrica Best is an Associate Professor of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. 

Dr. Best’s expertise is in the area of race and gender differences in population health across the life course.  Her recent work explores the impact of psychosocial factors in late-life chronic disease experience in both the United States and in Ghana. She also conducts research examining possible methodological issues in studying genetic and biological markers in social science surveys. 

Dr. Best received a BA in biology and sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and both an MA and PhD in sociology and demography, with a doctoral minor in gerontology, from The Pennsylvania State University. 

Dr. Best was a National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow at the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California’s Davis School of Gerontology. 

She teaches courses in Health Inequalities, Health and Human Rights, Women and Global Health, Population & Society, Sociology of Aging, Statistics and Research Methods.