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Health in Social Context

hsc-icon-100The establishment on campus of a school of public health emphasizing the social and behavioral sciences provides the opportunity to integrate innovative basic social science approaches pioneered by MPRC scholars with outstanding research on improving health and reducing health disparities situated in a social and environmental context. Examples to date include the application of time use methods to obesity, the application of models of gender and parenthood to health, and the environmental context of physical activity.

Research in this area includes:

  1. determinants of infant, child, and youth health;
  2. health and aging; and
  3. impact of health care systems and social programs.

Some examples of current research in this area can be seen below.


Wildfires and Child Health

Wildfires and Child Health

Faculty Associate Michel Boudreaux leads an R01 to measure impact of increasing particulant pollution on child health

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Elementary School Desegregation and Mid-Life Cognitive Function

Elementary School Desegregation and Mid-Life Cognitive Function

Walsemann research identifies integrated early childhood education as factor for improved cognitive function for Black individuals

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State level structural racism and alcohol and tobacco use behaviors

State level structural racism and alcohol and tobacco use behaviors

New paper by Faculty Associate Kerry Green examines structural racism impacts among a national probability sample of Black Americans

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Inequities in childrens' exposure to neurotoxicants

Inequities in childrens' exposure to neurotoxicants

Payne-Sturges' scoping review of the literature and recommendations to narrow health disparities

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Asian Americans & Racism: Individual and Structural Experiences (ARISE)

Asian Americans & Racism: Individual and Structural Experiences (ARISE)

Thu Nguyen to address the underrepresentation of Asian Americans in Alzheimer's and aging research through $3.4 million NIA grant

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13 million Facebook users weigh in on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, vaccination, and mask wearing

13 million Facebook users weigh in on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, vaccination, and mask wearing

Quynh Nguyen and colleagues use big data from the Facebook-based U.S. COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey to identify predictors of attitudes and behaviors during the pandemic

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Stigma as a deterrent to PrEP usage among Black sexual minority men

Stigma as a deterrent to PrEP usage among Black sexual minority men

Journal article by Typhanye Dyer, Hongjie Liu, and others finds that stigma is associated with lower utilization of PrEP

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Confronting Racism in Environmental Health Sciences

Confronting Racism in Environmental Health Sciences

Commentary by Devon Payne-Sturges and others presents recommendations for a path toward eliminating racial inequities

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Global Trends of Mask Usage in 19 Million Adults

Global Trends of Mask Usage in 19 Million Adults

Faculty Associate Frauke Kreuter and colleagues are using large scale data gathered on Facebook to get a sense of public understanding about mask-wearing

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Work mobility during COVID

Work mobility during COVID

NSF Rapid Response project will examine job restructuring, policy effects

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NSF RAPID Study on the 2020 Coronavirus Social Impacts

NSF RAPID Study on the 2020 Coronavirus Social Impacts

Long Doan along with Faculty Associates Liana Sayer, Sociology, and Jessica Fish, Family Science, will examine the social impacts of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic.

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Using New Policy Parameter to Study Early Childhood Intervention for Low Birth-weight Infants

Using New Policy Parameter to Study Early Childhood Intervention for Low Birth-weight Infants

Erich Battistin examines a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for low birth-weight infants using new policy parameter

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