You’ve likely heard the term social determinants of health used to describe how nonmedical factors like education, socioeconomic status or zip code can improve or worsen health. Erin Schumaker talks with host Katherine Ellen Foley about research presented at a recent panel at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on the science of sleep, and how the social determinants of sleep cut along racial and socioeconomic lines.

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