Rachel R. Hardeman is the Blue Cross Endowed Professor in Health and Racial Equity, and the Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE, pronounced "care"). She serves as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC, and she was named one of TIME's 2024 TIME100 most influential people in the world. A racial health equity researcher, she studies a critical and complex determinant of health inequity-racism. Her work contributes to a body of knowledge that links structural racism to health in tangible ways, identifies opportunities for intervention, and dismantles the systems, structures, and institutions that allow inequities to persist.